A Blair County family recently spent a little over a week in Madagascar on a mission trip.

Jim Kilmartin, the lead pastor at Center City Church, traveled to the island with his daughter and father-in-law.

While they were there they helped build a family a new home.

We caught up with Kilmartin who said this was the church’s first mission trip.

“It’s pretty amazing to build a house for just like nothing,” Kilmartin told us. “Next year we want to be able to go back and take a team that can build three, four, five, six houses.”

Kilmartin hopes to make a trip like this one an annual event.