Brian Was A Student Of Both North School And Holy Spirit School And Brian Was The Most Courageous And Inspiring Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
Brian’s Walk
This Sat., July nine 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 once a year event funds scholarship 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 Highschool. 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 courageous and inspiring young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a brief history of Brian’s amazing courage in life will inspire others to don’t 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 controlled by the priest of the Catholic church participated in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to hope and get money for the medical bills. 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 disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no proof of the disease and informed the parents to stop treatment. The parents did not tell him 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. But his body was extraordinarily weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another deadly illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the hospice and told he would not survive the night. Brian’s mother said to the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly disease, 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 nothing more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer carry on providing treatment 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 Glaze 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 site of claimed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the former 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 man speaking English and asked for his assistance. The man was Martin Glaze. Doctor. Woods and film star Sheen carried Brian up the rugged 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 Glaze 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 started to take place,writes tagza.com.
Darrin Patrick | Re:Lit Book | Church Planter Intro
