This Saturday, 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.
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 scholarship money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 was awarded 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 an alumni of both North School and Holy Spirit High School . Brian was the most courageous and inspiring 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 be successful in conquering grief.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The entire community of Collings Lake led by the priest of the Catholic church participated in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to wish and get money for the medical bills. 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 disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the disease and told the elders to stop treatment. The folks didn’t let him know they had stopped the medicine 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. However , his body was extremely weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospital and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mum informed the doctor that she wouldn’t 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, though not hope and religion
Following graduation from Holy Spirit tragedy again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the use of his hands, legs and arms. There had been not a lot more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer continue to provide care since there wasn’t progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. 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 deeply non secular family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of claimed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in an out-of-the-way area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Dr. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled brother plane. The two proceeded on the long difficult 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 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 help from his bro, Martin Sheen and the requests 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 take place,writes tagza.com.
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