Texas Baptist Men offering purified water to Mozambique flood victims
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Baptist volunteers from Texas, North Carolina and South Africa are purifying water for flood victims who have relocated to refugee camps in southeastern Mozambique.
___Cyclone Eline and subsequent storms have forced more than 1 million people in southern Mozambique from their homes over the past month. In addition to destroying villages and displacing residents, the floodwaters introduced cholera, water-borne bores and other diseases and parasites into the water supplies.
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Southwestern seminary chooses South African for theology dean
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___FORT WORTH--Expanding what President Ken Hemphill called the "globalization" of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, trustees last week elected a dean from South Africa, as well as a Cuban-American professor and a Korean-American administrator.
___David Crutchley, 45, who joined the Southwestern faculty last fall after 14 years at Cape Town Baptist Theological College in South Africa, was elected dean of the School of Theology. He succeeds Tommy Lea, who died last July.
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Medical missions gets new prescription, same message
___By Jenny Rogers
___SBC International Mission Board
___RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--A new wave of medical missionaries are leaving the hospital environment and taking their tools on the road. The destinations vary--college classrooms, urban offices, mud huts--but the need and the reasons are the same. Everyone needs good medical care, preventive medicine and health education.
___Under the International Mission Board's "New Directions" program, which focuses on people groups rather than countries, more medical missionaries and volunteers are getting the green light to head for areas typically unreached by hospitals--or by traditional missionary methods.
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 More than 900 students from across Texas participated in missions projects in Waco during CARGO 2000, sponsored Woman's Missionary Union of Texas.
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