Well over 100 youth and adult volunteers came from as far away as Tennessee and North Carolina to help make repairs to 25 Gloucester residents’ homes.

The Helping Hands Missions Camp, in its 15th year of serving the community, is out and about this week braving extreme temperatures to be the “hands and feet of Jesus.”

The group of 64 campers and over 50 adult volunteers are staying at Providence Baptist Church, Ordinary, where they gather each evening for a time of fellowship and prayer after spending the majority of the days out serving the community. Various projects include building handicapped accessible ramps, repairing fences and other home improvement tasks.

The mission of the weeklong camp is to be “a Christ-centered, youth-focused, multi-denominational community service mission for rising sixth through 12th graders,” a release stated. Youth campers are placed on teams with adult mentors and learn how to do the work necessary to complete their p...