This Sat., July 9 You Are Invited To Take Part In Brian’s Family Walk Starting At 9:30 A.M. At The St. Thomas The Apostle Church Carpark.
Brian’s Walk
This Sat., July 9 you are invited to take part in Brian’s Family Walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church parking lot. The yearly event funds scholarship money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 got given to four graduates of the North Middle School to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we honor his memory?
Brian was a student of both North School and Holy Spirit High School . Brian was the most courageous and inspiring young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short history of Brian’s extraordinary courage in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to be successful in beating adversity.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The entire community of Collings Lake controlled by the pastor of the Catholic church took part in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to wish and pull in cash for the medical expenses. The disease replied to treatment and went into remission. Brian’s story received much media coverage.
The killer disease returned more than a year later and treatment was reinstated. Then without human reason, it disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the illness and said to the folks to stop treatment. The elders did not let him know that they had stopped the medicine months previous when they knew that a healing had taken place after Brian attended a Catholic healing service and the sympton’s vanished.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the awe of the medical profession. Nevertheless his body was extremely weakened by the illness and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another perilous disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the infirmary and told he would not survive the night. Brian’s mummy said to the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the devastating illness, again defying medical reason.
Brian then went through a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, though not hope and faith
Following graduation from Holy Spirit crisis again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the usage of his hands, arms and legs. There had been nothing more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer keep on providing therapy as there wasn’t progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. But the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Glaze carries Brian to the head of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his very non secular family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of claimed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in an out-of-the-way area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Doctor. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled brother plane. The 2 proceeded on the long difficult trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a man talking English and asked for his help. The man was Martin Glaze. Doctor. Woods and megastar Sheen carried Brian up the craggy mountain in a special chair. The young man who couldn’t walk had overcome another major challenge by reaching the top of the mountain with help from his bro, Martin Glaze and the requests of the family. This account of the story was carried internationally last year on the website Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles commenced to occur,writes tagza.com.
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