This Saturday, 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.
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 car park. The annual 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 School to attend Holy Spirit Highschool. Who was Brian Woods and why do we honour his memory?
Brian was an alumni of both North School and Holy Spirit High School . Brian was the most bold and uplifing young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short recap of Brian’s extraordinary courage in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to achieve success in beating adversity.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The entire community of Collings Lake controlled by the pastor of the Catholic church participated in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years back to hope and get money for the hospital charges. The disease replied 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 reason, it vanished. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the disease 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 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 devastating disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the infirmary and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mummy told 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 reason.
Brian then underwent 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 employment of his hands, arms and legs. There had been not a lot more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer keep on providing treatment as there was neither 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 top of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his deeply religious family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of purported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Doctor. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The two 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 assistance. The person was Martin Glaze. Doctor. Woods and movie 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 top of the mountain with help from his brother, Martin Glaze and the requests of the family. This account of the story was carried internationally 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 began to occur,writes tagza.com.
Quiet Church Hill
