There are two ways to do the Project Bread Walk for Hunger, says Reverend Diane Badger of the Community Baptist Church of Marion, and one of them is 15 miles shorter.

On Sunday, May 6 Badger and her congregation will take part in the third annual Wareham Walk for Hunger, an offshoot of Boston’s annual 20-mile walk.

“By the time you drive to Boston, walk 20 miles, crawl back to your car and drive home…it’s crazy,” said Badger.

Badger, along with Father Dan Bernier of the Church of the Good Shepherd, first organized the shorter five-mile walk in 2010.

“Why would we drive all the way to Boston? We want our people in the pew on Sunday morning,” said Badger.

Instead of starting early in the morning, the Wareham walk kicks off at 1 p.m from the Church of the Good Shepherd with a 2.5 mile route to the Emmanuel Church of the Nazarene and back.

“If you can only walk half, then we will have a shuttle that can bring you back,” she said.

“We felt this was much more doable,” said Badger. “You could go to church in the morning or you could sleep late, have a nice breakfast and then come and walk.”

The walk raised $2,500 the first year and doubled to $5,000 the second, said Badger.

“We would like to see it double again,” she said. “We’d like to really beef that up and involve anybody who’d like to be involved.”

This year Father John Sullivan of St. Patrick’s Church in Wareham is also helping coordinate the event and Badger would like to see more non-Wareham churches get involved.

“Hunger doesn’t have geographic boundaries; hunger is everywhere,” said Badger. “It’s something we really need to commit ourselves to. It’s ridiculous in a county this rich where we throw out so much.”