Standing on Faith Produced Healing for Singer

Taylor Cain is one of three siblings that make up the popular Contemporary Christian Music group Cain. But there was a time when Taylor thought she may never sing again.

In 2015, she went on a mission trip to Honduras. “The plan was to repair things in their villages, just to help out, just to be around and whatever they needed, and we got to sing songs about Jesus,” Taylor says.

By the time she returned home to Alabama, she began feeling ill. “It was alarming how much I was vomiting. I would stand up out of the bed and I knew, I had my routine. I couldn't keep anything down.”

Her parents eventually took her to a hospital in Huntsville, where doctors tried to diagnose the source of the virus that was now attacking her kidneys and immune system. 
 
“The ER doctor called my parents and he was like ‘OK, here’s the deal: your creatinine level, right now you’re at an 8.2 And your kidneys start to fail at 3,'” Taylor says. 

“It was a condition called acute tubular necrosis, which can cause severe kidney failure. We see it commonly,” says kidney specialist Dr. Todd Broome. “In her case, I think it was likely caused by severe dehydration.”

Taylor’s mother, Shari Cain, recalls, “So that’s when we felt devastated, that ‘Oh wow, we are in serious trouble here.” 

Taylor’s parents, her then-boyfriend Steven, and her siblings began contacting people to pray. 

“It just grew like wild fire,” says Shari. “I mean thousands and thousands of people all over the world were praying for her.” 

“There was this cloud hanging over the whole group,” her brother Logan recalls. “It’s like, ‘We know the God we sing about and we know the God we hope comes through, but here we are for the first time, just standing at the edge of the Jordan.” 
 
“There was one night when, my family is pretty tough, and we all had the same faith--faith only--but then everyone just started to cry. And it was like, ‘What am I missing? ‘Am I dying? Is this really happening?’” Taylor says. 

Her sister Madison recalls, “They came into the room in the middle of the night, and they turned her on her side because her blood pressure had spiked and they kept saying, ‘Septic, septic, I think she's getting septic.’ I remember leaving and going into the hallway and just crying because it felt like more bad news.”

Although things did not look hopeful, Taylor’s family continued to stand in faith for her healing. 

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for,” her father Charley Cain says. “We just said, ‘This is not what we are seeing, but this is what we want. And we want Taylor healed. Not because Taylor is special, but because God wants us all healed.'" 

At one point, a nurse began relating the possible outcomes, which frustrated Charley. “When people bombard you with all the worst-case scenarios, it robs your hope,” he says. “They sent this lady in, bless her heart, to prepare us for a lifetime of dialysis for Taylor, and I said, ‘Ma’am we can’t hear this right now.’ And she kept on and finally I said, ‘Not another word!’” 

Taylor was scheduled for a surgery to install the port for her dialysis. But before they did, they did one more kidney biopsy. 

Charley remembers, “This was gonna destroy every dream my girl had ever had. It was gonna make her hair fall out. It was gonna ruin her vocal chords, as a singer, and it was gonna make her sterile, so she couldn’t have children.”

Taylor adds, “Even if I got a transplant, that wouldn't stop the autoimmune – my body was attacking my kidneys.” 

Just before she went to surgery, the doctor came in with the results from the biopsy. “Mom runs out into the hallway,” Taylor says. “And then she comes back and she's like, ‘He just told me he canceled your surgery. He’s like, ‘Your kidney biopsy came back completely clean. Your kidneys look – they've never been better.’ And he says, ‘You're gonna recover on your own. And I remember, I stood up on my hospital bed with my IV bag – we were hugging and screaming. It was the biggest celebration.”    

Dr. Broome adds, “It was a real emotional moment for them. I know there were a lot of people praying for her at the time, and I think those prayers were answered."

In 2020, the group signed a major record deal and have since landed two Number One hits, and won a K-Love award for Breakout Single of the Year. 

“She, along with her brother and sister, are now singing and ministering to people around the world, and I am so thankful that we had the Word in us and the prayers of people around us to fight that,” her mother says. 
 
Logan adds, “Up to that point, our music– it was everything we cared about. And in that moment, we had to reprioritize our lives and say, ‘Okay, well, if she cannot--and we won't without her--so we won't. Because we'd rather have her than whatever comes from music.”

“I am beyond thankful that for the last five years, six years, I have been singing nonstop,” Taylor says. “And what the enemy tried to take from me, it has just rocketed. Prayers work. They work! They work. Ask people to pray for you and really believe, really believe and anything is possible.”