This Sat., July Nine You Are Invited To Take Part In Brian’s Family Walk Starting At 9:30 A.M. At The St. Thomas The Apostle Church Car Park.
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 yearly 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 College to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we respect his memory?
Brian was a student of both North College and Holy Spirit High-school. Brian was the most bold and inspiring young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a brief history of Brian’s wonderful courage in life will evoke others to do not ever give up hope and to be successful in conquering difficulty.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The whole community of Collings Lake controlled by the preacher of the Catholic church took part in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to hope and pull in cash for the hospital charges. 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 explanation, it vanished. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no proof of the disease and informed the folks to stop treatment. The elders did not let him know 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 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 mother informed the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all night . 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, though not hope and faith
Following graduation from Holy Spirit tragedy again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the employment of his hands, legs and arms. There was not a lot more medically that could be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer carry on providing therapy since there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. However , 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 extraordinarily religious family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of alleged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a unvisited area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Dr. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled bro plane. The 2 proceeded on the long difficult trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a person speaking English and asked for his help. The person was Martin Sheen. 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 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 started to take place,writes tagza.com.
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