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.
Brian’s Walk
This Saturday, 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 carpark. The once a year event funds scholarship money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 was given to 4 graduates of the North Middle School to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we respect his memory?
Brian was a graduate of both North School and Holy Spirit High School . Brian was the most courageous and inspirational young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short recap of Brian’s extraordinary courage in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to succeed in beating difficulty.
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 hope and get money for the medical bills. The disease responded 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 proof of the disease and told the elders to stop treatment. The folks did not tell him that they had stopped the medication 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 awe of the medical profession. But his body was very weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another perilous disease, 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 . Brian survived the night and beat the perilous disease, again defying medical reason.
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 crisis again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the usage of his hands, arms and legs. There was little more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer continue to provide care since there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. However , 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 Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Dr. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled brother 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 help. The man was Martin Sheen. Dr. Woods and megastar 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 Sheen and the prayers of the family. This account of the tale was carried globally 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 commenced to happen,writes tagza.com.
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