by emad » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:44 pm
Monday October 31, 2005 2:01 AM<br><br><br>WACO, Texas (AP) - A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a church employee said. <br><br>The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water up to his shoulder in a baptismal at University Baptist Church when he was electrocuted, said Jamie Dudley, a church business administrator and wife of another pastor there. <br><br>Doctors in the congregation performed chest compressions, she said. Lake was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, where nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said he was pronounced dead. <br><br>The woman Lake was baptizing was not injured, Dudley said. <br><br>Pastors at University Baptist Church routinely use a microphone during baptisms, Dudley said. <br><br>``He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear,'' Dudley said. ``It's the only way you can be loud enough.'' <br><br>About 800 people attended the morning service, which was larger than normal because it was homecoming weekend at nearby Baylor University, Dudley said. <br><br>Lake, who had a wife and three children, had been at the church for nine years, the last seven as pastor, Dudley said. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0%2C1280%2C-5380859%2C00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/worldl...%2C00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>WHAT is it about WACO that makes this happen??? <p></p><i></i>
