Brian Was A Student 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 starting at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church parking lot. The annual 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 High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we honor his memory?
Brian was a graduate 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 short history of Brian’s amazing bravery in life will induce others to do not ever 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 controlled by the pastor of the Catholic church took part in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years back to wish and raise money for the hospital charges. The illness answered 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 reason, it vanished. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the disease and said to the folks to stop treatment. The elders didn’t 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 vanished.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the amazement of the medical profession. Nevertheless his body was very weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the infirmary and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mum informed the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all evening. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly 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 employment of his hands, legs and arms. There had been little more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer carry on providing care since there wasn’t progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. Nonetheless 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 deeply religious family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of alleged apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Dr. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled brother plane. The 2 proceeded on the long arduous 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 Glaze 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 assistance from his bro, Martin Glaze and the prayers of the family. This account of the story was carried globally last year on the website 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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