This Saturday, July Nine You Are Invited To Take Part In Brian’s Family Walk Beginning At 9:30 A.M. At The St. Thomas The Apostle Church Parking Lot.
Brian’s Walk
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. The annual 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 College to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we respect his memory?
Brian was a graduate 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 recap of Brian’s extraordinary courage in life will inspire others to never give up hope and to achieve success in overcoming grief.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age five. The whole community of Collings Lake led by the priest of the Catholic church participated in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to wish and raise money for the medical bills. 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 reason, it disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the illness and informed the folks 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. Nevertheless his body was very weakened by the illness 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 wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mummy informed the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly illness, again defying medical reason.
Brian then went through a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, though not hope and religion
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 company would no longer continue to provide treatment since there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. Nonetheless 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 deeply religious family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of alleged apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in an out-of-the-way area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Doctor. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled bro plane. The two proceeded on the long difficult 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 Glaze. Doctor. Woods and megastar Glaze carried Brian up the rough 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 Glaze and the prayers of the family. This account of the story was carried worldwide last year on the internet site Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles started to occur,writes tagza.com.
