Sister Sister Breast Cancer Fifth Annual Prayer Breakfast - Sept 5, Sheraton Resort, Cable Beach

Members of The Surgical Suite Sister Sister Breast Cancer Support Group.

The Surgical Suite Sister Sister Breast Cancer Fifth Annual Prayer Breakfast Scheduled For September 5, Aims To Offer Hope To Survivors Of Breast Cancer

The prayer breakfast is the main fundraiser for The Surgical Suite Sister Sister Breast Cancer Support Group, which is comprised of 150 members who are survivors of breast cancer, a disease that continues to affect many Bahamian women at alarming rates.

“Every year we are delighted to hold the prayer breakfast as a time to give thanks to God for all of the many survivors that have survived through the years from breast cancer. It is also a time for various survivors of breast cancer, many persons whom would not have seen each other for a long time to come together and to fellowship with one another,” commented Helen Rolle, secretary with The Sister Sister Breast Cancer Support Group.

Mrs. Rolle who is also a survivor of breast cancer for the past four years and eight months noted that while the prayer breakfast is a major fundraiser for the group, it is more about the fellowship the women will experience among one another, while praising and giving thanks to God for his grace and mercy.

Mrs. Rolle informed that the keynote speaker for this year’s Prayer Breakfast will be Minister Carnetta Ferguson of the Church of God of Prophecy who is a survivor of breast cancer. The event is sponsored by British American Financial.  The Ministry of Health along with well-known medical practitioners, Doctors Locksley Munroe and Charles Diggiss, will also be in attendance.

Speaking personally about her experience as a breast cancer survivor, Mrs. Rolle who is also an ordained Deacon at Mount Moriah Baptist Church said, “Being a part of this support group really means a lot to me. I am so thankful that God through his mercies has looked on me with His divine favor one more time and has spared my life to see another year. I must say that since joining the group from day one, they have been a source of support and strength. When I am feeling low some one from the group would call. In fact there is not a day that goes by that I do not hear from a sister from the group just to say that I am praying for you or thinking about you…”

While re-iterating the goal of the group, Mrs. Rolle said, “The Sister Sister Breast Cancer Group is a support group for women because we all share the same common factor and so we are able to assist one another through prayers, through a kind word and let our members who are survivors of breast cancer know that they are not in this all alone but we are all in this together.”

Mrs. Rolle is calling on members of the public to show their support. The funds will be used to support survivors of breast cancer as well as assist in the purchase of a port- a-cath, a special instrument used in the administration of chemo.

Tickets for the Prayer Breakfast are $35.00. For more information persons can contact The Surgical Suite Sister Sister Breast Cancer Support Group at 326-1929.