Home Sweet Home Ministries hosts Run for Hope

Posted on February 29, 2016

Home Sweet Home spokeswoman Chyanne Corrigan says runners who sign up for the Run for Hope can get a price break. (Photo by Laura Ewan/WJBC)

By Eric Stock

BLOOMINGTON – Home Sweet Home Ministries hopes to provide more care to more people in need through a fitness fundraiser.

The third annual Run for Hope on Saturday, March 26 begins and ends at Home Sweet Home’s warehouse operations center in west Bloomington and runs west along the Constitution Trail. Spokeswoman Chyanne Corrigan told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin the 10K, 5K and Kids Fun Run support the ministry’s shelter and food pantry, Bridge of Hope program which helps single mothers and the Bread for Life co-op.

“We switched from a pantry model to a co-op model two years ago so people could come in and they can work and get food in the coop,” Corrigan said. “They get a lot more food than they ever did in the pantry. It’s more relational, they are getting to know one another. it’s been awesome.

Registration information on Run for Hope can be found here.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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