MANNINGTON --  The summer is a great time for kids to get involved in community service projects and several summer camps focus on cleaning up the community.

There is one camp that's in Marion County right now, here despite a crisis going on in their hometown.

A youth group from Janesville, Wisconsin is in Mannington this week on a community service trip with their church. The trip had been planned for months, but just as the group was preparing to leave strong storms hit the midwest and devastated their hometown.

"It rained a lot and the river wasn't apt for all the rain and it just kind of flooded over. It was kind of sudden, kind of scary," said Mariah Nunn, a member of the Wisconsin Youth Group who saw the storms hit her hometown.

Janesville, Wisconsin is in southern Wisconsin, near the Illinois border. It was hit hard by storms, that left the area under several feet of water.

"There is a good two feet of water on the main roads and there's fish swimming right up the main street!" said Brett Larson, with the Wisconsin Youth Group.

But eight teenagers from the First Lutheran Church left the devastation, and travelled to Mannington to do some community service projects.

"I had decided a while ago that this was what I was going to do, so I wasn't about to change my mind," said Larson.

The group says they can do good here in Mannington, cleaning up Bowers Park before heading back home to help clean up from the storm.

"Right now there wasn't a lot we could do before we left because the water was so high, we had to wait until it recedes," said Nunn.

So while they wait for the water to go down at home, at Bowers Park they broke out the power tools and paint brushes.

"We are going to paint it up, so it looks really nice and colorful and hopefully its repaired good. It's going to be a nice looking place instead of a chipped old looking place," said Wisconsin Youth Group Member Ben Fox.

Which is exactly what Mannington resident, a local youth group volunteer Hannah Roth, is hoping for.

"I love this park, I love to come out here after I get done eating Dairy Queen and swing on the swings," said Roth.

The swings will now be left as a colorful reminder of the Wisconsin youth group.

The group will return to Wisconsin this Saturday, where all the group members say they are looking forward to helping with the clean-up effort.