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 participate in Brian’s Family Walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church car park. 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 College to attend Holy Spirit Highschool. Who was Brian Woods and why do we honor his memory?
Brian was a student of both North College and Holy Spirit High-school. Brian was the most bold and uplifing young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short recap of Brian’s amazing courage in life will inspire others to never give up hope and to achieve success in overcoming grief.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The whole community of Collings Lake led by the preacher of the Catholic church took part in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years back to pray and pull in cash for the medical expenses. The illness answered to treatment and went into remission. Brian’s story received much media coverage.
The killer illness returned more than a year later and treatment was reinstated. Then without human explanation, it disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the illness and told the parents to stop treatment. The parents did not tell him that they had stopped the medication months previous when they knew that a healing had taken place after Brian attended a Catholic healing service and the sympton’s disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the awe of the medical profession. But his body was extremely weakened by the illness and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the hospital and told he would not survive the night. Brian’s mum said to the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the perilous illness, again defying medical explanation.
Brian then underwent a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, but not hope and faith
Following graduation from Holy Spirit tragedy again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the usage of his hands, legs and arms. There had been not a lot more medically that could be done for Brian. The insurance company would no longer continue to provide therapy as there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. 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 extraordinarily non secular family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of purported apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in an out-of-the-way area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Doctor. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled bro plane. The two proceeded on the long strenuous trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a man talking English and asked for his assistance. The man was Martin Glaze. Doctor. Woods and film star Glaze 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 apex of the mountain with assistance from his bro, Martin Glaze and the prayers of the family. This account of the tale was carried internationally last year on the internet site Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles began to take place,writes tagza.com.
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