Brian Was A Graduate Of Both North College And Holy Spirit Highschool And Brian Was The Most Courageous And Inspiring Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
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 carpark. 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 respect his memory?
Brian was a student 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 brief history of Brian’s extraordinary courage in life will inspire others to do not ever give up hope and to be successful in conquering adversity.
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 first Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to pray and get money for the medical expenses. The illness replied 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 vanished. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no proof of the illness and said to the parents to stop treatment. The folks didn’t let him know 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 disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the amazement 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 perilous illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospice and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mummy informed the doctor that she would not 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, although 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, legs and arms. There had been little more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer carry on providing care as there wasn’t either progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. However , the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Glaze carries Brian to the pinnacle of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his very non secular family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of claimed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Dr. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The two proceeded on the long difficult trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a person talking English and asked for his help. The person was Martin Glaze. Dr. Woods and movie star Sheen carried Brian up the craggy mountain in a special chair. The young man who could not walk had overcome another major challenge by reaching the apex of the mountain with help from his brother, Martin Glaze and the prayers of the family. This account of the story was carried globally 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 commenced to occur,writes tagza.com.
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