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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 Parking Lot.

Brian's Walk

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 parking lot. The once a year 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 Highschool. 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 courageous and uplifing young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short history of Brian's wonderful courage in life will inspire others to do not ever give up hope and to be successful in overcoming difficulty.

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 pray and get money for the medical bills. 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 proof of the illness and said to the folks to stop treatment. The parents didn't tell him that they had stopped the medicine 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. However , his body was extraordinarily weakened by the illness and the treatment.

Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis

Brian later contracted another deadly disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospice and told he wouldn't survive the night. Brian's mum informed the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all evening. Brian survived the night and beat the devastating illness, again defying medical explanation.

Brian then underwent 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 use of his hands, legs and arms. There was nothing more medically that could be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer keep on providing therapy 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 very non secular family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a location of purported apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the former Yugoslavia.

Brian's brother Dr. Lance Woods met his dear the crippled brother plane. The two proceeded on the long strenuous trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a person talking English and asked for his help. The person was Martin Glaze. Dr. Woods and film star 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 pinnacle of the mountain with help from his brother, Martin Glaze and the requests of the family. This account of the tale 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 began to take place,writes tagza.com.