Miracle at Manchester was a full feature story that came through the festival in 2022. Bryce Newman is a teen cancer survivor on a mission to continue what happened to him while in the hospital. He saw a young girl on the same floor he was on, who didn't have the lifeline of staying connected with the outside world.

 

He gave her his ipad and her face lit up with joy.

 

Something not usually seen in that space, place, and time. It became his mission that whenever a child is diagnosed with cancer, they are handed an ipad or tablet to help them through their cancer journey story. From that moment, Miracle Children's Foundation was born.

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The curator for the Film Festival, Deborah J. Watson, wanted to help beyond the awards and what was being shown in the story. She wanted to be an active participant in his future story. In 2023, she reached out to Tony Orlando about being on the advisory board for the festival, and if he would want to Emcee a classic car show where participants would donate a new ipad or tablet in lieu of a registration fee. He wholeheartedly agreed and the planning began.

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In 2025, she decided to do a combined Classic Car and Bike Show, to include a variety of passionate people that she was confident would show up and be a blessing to the three hospital's in the state of Missouri that helped children with cancer. Located in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield would take an army of people to organize, facilitate and activate the vision and so the journey began.

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Now, one year later, the vision for helping came closer to home for Deborah for two reasons. She herself is now a cancer survivor, and there is a two year old from Branson, who was just diagnosed, and is at St. Jude's in Memphis, receiving treatments for his.

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"We never know what our life journey story will include. All I know is that miracles happen all of the time. Now is our turn to stand in the gap for those who are suffering, in a simple way by bringing joy to them on the journey." Deborah J. Watson

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She shared the vision with Pastor Joe Inman at CAYA Fellowship, and he came on board as a fiscal sponsor to help shoulder the cost of the event. ($150,000.00 because she is giving back to the first 500 bikers who register) He could see clearly how it aligned with their KTFR radio program "Nothing but Outlaw- Saved Country"

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NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO MAKE YOUR CHOICE ON HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS UNPRECEDENTED EVENT. BE A RIDER OR A DONOR.

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