Brian Was A Graduate Of Both North College And Holy Spirit Highschool And Brian Was The Most Courageous And Uplifing Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
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 car park. The yearly event funds grant money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 was given to four graduates of the North Middle School to attend Holy Spirit Highschool. Who was Brian Woods and why do we respect his memory?
Brian was a student of both North School 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 extraordinary bravery in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to succeed in overcoming adversity.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The whole community of Collings Lake led by the pastor of the Catholic church participated in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years back to wish and get money for the medical expenses. The disease answered 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 explanation, it vanished. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no proof of the illness and said to the parents to stop treatment. The folks did not tell him they had stopped the medicine months prior 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 amazement of the medical profession. Nevertheless his body was very weakened by the illness and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the hospice and told he would not survive the night. Brian’s mum told the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all evening. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly illness, again defying medical explanation.
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 employment of his hands, arms and legs. There had been not a lot more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer carry on providing therapy as there wasn’t either progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. But the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the pinnacle of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his very spiritual family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of alleged apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a unvisited area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Doctor. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled bro plane. The 2 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 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 help from his bro, Martin Sheen and the prayers of the family. This account of the tale was carried internationally last year on the 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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