God’s Pit Crew rolled into Tennessee last week to help rebuild Shacklett Church of Christ, which was severely damaged by last month’s flooding. Twenty-eight volunteers from the nonprofit crisis response team based in Danville, Va., spent five days restoring the church on Highway 70 in the Shacklett community.

I’m in Music City to speak at the Christian Scholars Conference on a panel exploring this question: “Will Print Survive in the Stone-Campbell Movement?” I’ll share more on this later. In the meantime, how would you answer that question? On Thursday afternoon, Tamie and I attended a 90-minute session on “The Future of Christian Higher Education for Institutions Affiliated with the Churches of Christ: Insight from our Current Leaders.”

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.”

The Schrader Lane Church of Christ is among congregations helping with the ongoing flood relief effort in Nashville, Tenn. “Everybody in there is in a God-giving spirit,” Joyce Bumper, whose East Nashville home sustained flood damage, told a local television station. “I’m grateful I heard about it.”

The Mt. Juliet Church of Christ, east of Nashville, Tenn., has created a Web site called GiveaHandUp.com as part of its flood relief effort. Involvement minister Jonathan Pettus reports that the congregation is now a financial collection and distribution point for flood relief in the Nashville area.

Lipscomb University is recruiting volunteers to help with Nashville, Tenn., area flood relief this weekend. The university, already serving as a Red Cross emergency shelter for flood victims, announced Wednesday that it will partner with a nonprofit disaster relief organization and several Nashville churches to help clean flood-damaged homes.

Brandon Scott Thomas of the ZOE Group addresses Pepperdine Bible Lectures participants by video and requests prayers and donations for flood-ravaged Nashville, Tenn. “We are in the midst of one of the most devastating floods that this city has ever seen,” Thomas says.

Is the flooding disaster in Nashville receiving too little national attention? Yes, according to many residents of Music City — the Tennessee capital sometimes called “the buckle of the Bible Belt” and known for its heavy concentration of Churches of Christ.

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.