Volunteers from Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team are in Minot, N.D., helping church members clean up and repair flooded homes. While flood-stricken North Dakota has disappeared from the headlines, the community’s needs remain immense, said Daniel Kelly, minister of the Minot Church of Christ. The homes of six families in the 60-member congregation sustained flooding damages, Kelly said.

The Springfield Church of Christ in Vermont is helping flood victims in nearby towns after Hurricane Irene. Elder Ernest “Puggy” Lamphere said the 80-member church was pleased to receive a truckload of emergency food boxes, personal care kits and cleaning supplies from Nashville, Tenn.-based Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort.

In Minot, N.D., the Minot Church of Christ is doing its part to help residents after this summer’s devastating flooding. The church partnered with the Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort to help bring much-needed supplies into the area, an area television station reports.

Faulkner University students are helping with the tornado relief effort in Alabama.

KHQA-TV in Hannibal, Mo., reports:
Dozens of Marion County flood victims braved the heat outside the Church of Christ in Hannibal Monday afternoon. Inside, members from United Way’s Northeast Missouri Chapter of Unmet Needs began handing out cleaning kits, clothes, food and water to name a few.
They, along with members fom the Church of Christ spent days in preparation for the event. The group’s ready to handle as many as 150 people, that number coming from the United Way’s flood victim list. All supplies were donated by The Churches of Christ Disaster …

As record rainfall deluged Oklahoma City on Monday, a number of area residents endured scary moments. Among them were Austin Lowry, an Oklahoma Christian University student, and his mother, JoAnn. They are members of the Edmond Church of Christ, my home congregation.

We’ve just posted coverage of the 2010 Nashville flood at www.christianchronicle.org. Ted Parks, our Nashville, Tenn.-based corespondent, surveys the damage and highlights churches affected in “Grand ole mess: Tennessee churches, Christian university rally after flood.”

Lisa Steele serves as director of English classes and Hispanic ministry at the Antioch Church of Christ, south of Nashville, Tenn. She provides this update on the relief effort at the Antioch church. “I feel very privileged to serve those in need and to see so many others serving as the hands and feet of Jesus,” she says.

Via Caroline Price, here is a firsthand report and photos on the relief effort and devastation in Nashville. Caroline is a 2009 journalism graduate of Lipscomb University and a member of the Brentwood Hills Church of Christ.

Got water? Members of Churches of Christ helped quench a tornado-devastated Mississippi community’s thirst in a big way.