For the Helping Hands Outreach Ministry at New Covenant United Methodist Church, COVID-19 meant helping hands became idle.
âCOVID-19 really put a damper in our ministry last year,â said Thom Hays, director of communications for Helping Hands. âWe did some repair work on a few of the homes we previously built over the summer, but it wasnât much.â
Before COVID-19 shut down area houses of worship last spring, Helping Hands put the finishing touches on the 30th home it built for an area family. It took until the late summer for the ministry to begin work on its 31st home.