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Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism





The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was stepping into the baptistery as he reached out for the microphone, which produced an electric shock, said University Baptist Church community pastor Ben Dudley.

Water in a baptistery usually reaches above the waist, said Byron Weathersbee, interim university chaplain at Baylor University.

Lake was pronounced dead at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said. The woman being baptized apparently had not stepped into the water and was not seriously injured.

Pastors at University Baptist Church routinely use a microphone during baptisms, said Jamie Dudley, the wife of Ben Dudley and a business administrator at the church.

"He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear," she said. "It's the only way you can be loud enough."

About 800 people attended the morning service, which was larger than normal because it was homecoming weekend at nearby Baylor University, Dudley said.

Lake had been at the church for nine years, the last seven as pastor. He is survived by his wife, Jennifer, a 5-year-old daughter and two 3-year-old sons.

At a remembrance attended by about 1,000 people Sunday night at First Baptist Church, Ben Dudley told the UBC congregation that they would move forward as a church.

"I don't know how, when, why, where or what's going to happen, but we will continue as a church in the community because that is what Kyle would have wanted," he said.




http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/31/pastor.electrocuted.ap/

 

yes I heard that too!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesterday, in fact....

and I was going to post about this, but I guess you beat me to the punch.....

anyways, kinda funny that (well it shouldnt be funny) he died while giving a baptism...... baptism is like life in the church........ and then he ends up losing his life.... could you imagine what the scene would have been like in the church?? I wonder if any of the alterboys went up to recicitate him? haha...... Im so going to hell for this.....

 

I wonder if the congregation thought he was touched by the holy spirit??? thats the way those people act when those televangelists touch their heads...... they shake violently as if the holy ghost passed right through them

 

hah, that's hilarious. note to self, if standing in a large amount of water, dont' touch electrical things. duh.

 

Shit happens

 

strike baptisms off the list of blessed events, time to try a new religion

 

people who are stupid enuf to grab a microphone while standing elbow deep in water deserve to die .... its natural selection .........stupid man .

 

Why didn't God tell him that a wireless mike with proper grounding/shielding would've acted as a limited mechanical optoisolator, or better yet actually using the donations from the faithful to purchase the proper equipment to truly implement a sound system that was capable of withstanding the wrath of water(we've all watched the Discovery Channel, and have seen that It can be done), hence eliminating thou's chance of being struck down? "He" works in mysterious ways.

 

the woman must have been so scared for her baby

 

I think from the news story it was actually the woman being baptized, and there was no baby involved. Thats a relief....and the woman wasn't in the water at the time.

I still don't know why anyone would mix electricity and water. It's 2005...you have to know by now.