Ball State students and the Muncie community will come together on Saturday for the seventh annual Walk-A-Mile in My Shoes charity walk benefiting the Muncie Mission.
Ray Raines, Executive Director of Muncie Mission Ministries, said each year the event grows, and they are expecting even more this year.
The first year, there were only a couple hundred participants and before the event was snowed out last year, around 1,500 people had registered.
Raines hopes the winter weather will not deter walkers and the number of participants will be somewhere around 1,200. So far 80 teams and 900 individual participants have registered.
This includes 10 members of the Ball State chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity and four from the Alpha Phi sorority.
"The girls had a great time helping out in the past," Kaitlyn Braun, Director of Community Service for Alpha Phi, said.
The volunteers from Alpha Phi will be helping register participants and passing out Walk-A-Mile t-shirts. The sorority has been involved in the Walk-A-Mile walk for a few years and also sends volunteers for A Better Way, the Girl Scouts and at the Second Harvest Food Bank.
Participants will meet at the Muncie Fieldhouse at the corner of Wysor and Walnut Streets at 8 a.m. for registration, refreshments and an opening program. The walk will begin at 9 a.m. and end at the Muncie Mission, where MITS will be providing rides back to the Fieldhouse for walkers to retrieve their cars. Walkers are welcome to return to the Mission for refreshments and tours of the building.
The money raised by the event will go toward recuperating from the fire that burned part of the building last summer, Raines said.
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