WACO, Texas (Oct. 31) - A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after adjusting a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.

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 had a 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.



10/31/05 00:42 EST


this HAS to mean something =/

Religion kills.



But we already knew that?

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Lawsuit anyone?

I guess Halloween is the one day where religion is vulnerable.

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Or maybe there was an electric current that shocked him because he was in the water?

maybe the pastor was carrying on with shady dealings contradicting the things he preached to his congregation or something so God decided to punish him....who knows???

don't you believe in fate?

Don't you believe in water conducting electricity?

yeh i know physics and all that for real, but what caused him to find himself in a situation where he needed to do that, causing his death....

you could say that it was just coincidence, but on the other hand you could see it from the point of view that these circumstances were destined to occur....

but it depends on the way you want to look at things

Lmao @ fate. He fucked around wires will standing in water that went up to his waist. I call that a dumbass pastor.