Madison TV Channel 3000 broadcasted last year "Battling Back From Poverty: A Christmas Miracle”, a Christmas story told by Ann Yurcek in her book, Tiny Titan, Journey of Hope. The story is a Christmas miracle about a tiny dying baby and the Yurcek family that has been spreading across the country and that will be soon shared globally. For more details on the story, you can visit http://www.channel3000.com/news/10586924/detail.html .

The Christmas story was found by the Nippon Television in September and the family was contacted by its representatives, who have gone to the family home in Lancaster, Wisconsin to interview and film for the upcoming recreation to be shown on December 12 across Japan. The touching story of an amazing miracle that happened on Christmas Eve eighteen years ago to a desperate family will be broadcast nationwide as a mini documentary. The feature will be a part of "The World's Amazing News” right before Christmas.

Having five children and a dying baby, the Urcek family was in desperate need of a miracle eighteen years ago, in 1989. By Christmas, a once struggling middle-income family had fallen into the costs of catastrophic medical and financial disaster. With hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills to save their tiny daughter, born with a severe form of Noonan Syndrome the family was desperate. Christmas was coming. Their baby was dying. Their cupboards were bare and they had nothing to give their children for Christmas.

On Christmas Eve, the family drove to the hospital to visit baby Becca. She was in heart failure with a compromised immune system, pneumonia, and a systemic staph infection. Ann prayed for a miracle. "We may not have gifts, but what we do have is family. We need hope." The story of how that Christmas prayer was answered is now being shared with the world.

Arriving home that night, the family found a Christmas miracle on their front porch. More than a dozen trash bags were filled with gifts and groceries and the hope she had prayed for. Their 5 year old daughter Marissa asked: "Why did Santa leave presents on the steps?". Their 7 year old son Ian answered: "With all of this dummy there was no way Santa could come down the chimney," while 10 year old Kristi added: “Besides the door is locked."

But miracles continued to happen to the family that night. Just after midnight, the family received a phone call from the hospital. Becca's condition had been upgraded. She was stable and they later discovered the unknown Santa had also paid all the utility bills. To this day the family has no idea who the secret Santa was. The Yurcek family was blessed that Christmas and inspired to move forward.

The family was inspired to give back. They opened their hearts and adopted the family nobody wanted. They reunited six brothers and sisters separated in the foster care system. Soon the Yurceks discovered their experience with special needs and advocacy gained by life experience Becca would be just what they needed when they discovered their new children Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and other challenges.

While in Michigan the family founded the nationally recognized "Backpacks for Kids Program". They stuffed backpacks with school supplies for more than 5000 needy children in Kalamazoo County, Michigan and continued their program in Grant County, Wisconsin.

Ann Yurcek said: "It's not a hand out; it's a hand up until you can stand on your own two feet. Jim and I have been down and out. We've nearly lost everything more than one. The results of someone or someones who care provided the catalyst for us to not only change, but become future miracle Santas, There is always someone you know who needs a miracle, and if we have the opportunity we return the hope the was given to us. It's about making someone's load a little lighter because you have walked it."

For further information on the story, visit the family's website, http://www.tinytitan.org .