This Saturday, July Nine You Are Invited To Participate In Brian’s Family Walk Beginning At 9:30 A.M. At The St. Thomas The Apostle Church Car Park.
Brian’s Walk
This Saturday, July nine you are invited to participate in Brian’s Family Walk starting 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 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 inspirational young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a brief history of Brian’s extraordinary courage in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to be successful in conquering difficulty.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The entire community of Collings Lake led by the pastor of the Catholic church took part in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years back to pray and pull in cash for the hospital charges. The disease answered 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 elders to stop treatment. The parents 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 disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the amazement of the medical profession. Nevertheless 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 folks was called to the hospice and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mother informed the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the devastating 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 was little more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer keep on providing treatment as 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 Sheen carries Brian to the pinnacle of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his extraordinarily religious family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of purported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in an out-of-the-way area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Dr. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled bro plane. The 2 proceeded on the long arduous 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 Sheen. Dr. Woods and movie star 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 bro, 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 began to happen,writes tagza.com.
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