This Sat., 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 Carpark.
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 carpark. The once a year event funds grant money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 was given to 4 graduates of the North Middle School to attend Holy Spirit Highschool. 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 recap of Brian’s wonderful courage in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to be successful in conquering adversity.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The whole community of Collings Lake controlled by the preacher of the Catholic church participated in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to hope and raise money 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 evidence of the disease and said to the folks to stop treatment. The folks did not let him know that 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 amazement of the medical profession. But his body was extremely weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another perilous disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the infirmary 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 evening. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly disease, again defying medical explanation.
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 nothing more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer continue to provide care 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 Glaze carries Brian to the head 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 claimed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a unvisited area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Dr. Lance Woods met his dear 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. Dr. Woods and megastar Glaze carried Brian up the rough 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 assistance from his brother, Martin Glaze and the requests of the family. This account of the story 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.
The Gaslight Anthem — The Diamond Church Street Choir
