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 Car Park.
Brian’s Walk
This Sat., July nine you are invited to participate in Brian’s Family Walk starting at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church parking lot. The annual event funds grant money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 was awarded to four graduates of the North Middle College to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we honour his memory?
Brian was an alumni 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 brief history of Brian’s amazing bravery in life will induce others to never give up hope and to achieve success in conquering adversity.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The whole community of Collings Lake led by the priest of the Catholic church took part in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to wish and pull in cash for the hospital charges. The illness responded 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 proof of the disease and said to the folks to stop treatment. The parents didn’t let him know 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 amazement of the medical profession. Nevertheless his body was very weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another perilous illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospice and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mother informed the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all night . Brian survived the night and beat the devastating disease, 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 religion
Following graduation from Holy Spirit crisis again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the use of his hands, arms and legs. There had been not a lot more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer continue to provide treatment since there wasn’t progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. Nonetheless the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the top of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his extraordinarily religious family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of purported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Doctor. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The two proceeded on the long strenuous trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a person talking English and asked for his assistance. The person was Martin Sheen. Doctor. Woods and movie star Sheen carried Brian up the rugged mountain in a special chair. The young man who could not walk had overcome another major challenge by reaching the top of the mountain with help from his bro, Martin Sheen 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 started to happen,writes tagza.com.
Pastor Keith G. Tyler
