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WINSTON-SALEM – Some Wake Forest University students are taking the remainder of their winter break to help others.

Baptist Student Union volunteers will head to Tennessee where they'll spend the next five days painting and fixing up homes.

Carly Rudiger drove from Atlanta early Sunday morning so she could go on a service trip.

“This is actually the first service trip I've done,” Rudiger, a Wake Forest University Junior, said. “My first one at Wake, my first one I have ever done. So it's going to be a completely new and exciting experience for me, and I am really looking forward to it.”

In all, nine students will go on the week-long trip. The school's associate chaplain said it's a great opportunity for the students.

“It's one of my favorite things to do … the service trips, because it gets students off of campus, away in a different kind of setting and gives them the opportunity to meet people who may live a different kind of lifestyle, maybe very different from them,” Becky Harzog said.

The students will spend the week making renovations at what used to be an abandoned military base which has since been turned into a community for low income housing.

“Mostly what we will be doing is painting and just trying to get some buildings ready for people to live in,” Harzog said.

And as the students stepped on the bus to new experiences, Harzog said she hopes the lessons they learn are simple.

“One person with one good idea who takes a step of faith can make a big difference, and that's what I want students to understand is even one person can make a difference.” Harzog said. “If you only make a difference in one person's life – but anything you can do to help another person comes back to you 100 fold.”

This isn't the first mission trip for this group; students have spent the last few years helping Hurricane Katrina victims along the Gulf Coast.