Brian Was A Graduate Of Both North College And Holy Spirit School And Brian Was The Most Courageous And Uplifing Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
Brian’s Walk
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. The annual event funds grant money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 got given to four graduates of the North Middle College to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we honour his memory?
Brian was an alumni 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 short history of Brian’s extraordinary bravery in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to succeed in conquering grief.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The whole community of Collings Lake led by the preacher of the Catholic church participated in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to hope and pull in cash for the medical bills. 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 told the parents to stop treatment. The elders didn’t tell him 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 disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the awe of the medical profession. However , his body was extremely weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another perilous illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the infirmary and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mum told the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all evening. Brian survived the night and beat the devastating disease, again defying medical reason.
Brian then went through a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, although not hope and religion
Following graduation from Holy Spirit crisis again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the usage of his hands, arms and legs. There was little more medically that could be done for Brian. The insurance company would no longer continue to provide treatment since there wasn’t either progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. But the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the top of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his extraordinarily religious family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of purported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a unvisited area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Doctor. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The 2 proceeded on the long strenuous trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a man talking English and asked for his assistance. The man was Martin Sheen. Doctor. Woods and film star Sheen carried Brian up the rugged 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 Sheen and the prayers of the family. This account of the story was carried internationally 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 commenced to happen,writes tagza.com.
First Baptist Church Of Yucaipa – Yucaipa, CA
