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Methanolandbrats
10-31-05, 05:43 PM
THis whole setup might need to be reworked............................. :saywhat:


Texas Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism

WACO, Texas (AP) - 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.

CARTNUT
10-31-05, 05:57 PM
Obviously he wasn't grounded in his faith! :(

'NUT :gomer:

Methanolandbrats
10-31-05, 06:12 PM
Obviously he wasn't grounded in his faith! :(

'NUT :gomer: :D

jcollins28
10-31-05, 06:42 PM
Obviously he wasn't grounded in his faith! :(

'NUT :gomer:


ROFLMAO. That is just wrong..funny but wrong...."Moving away from cartnut from fear of being struck by lightning..... :)

anait
11-01-05, 01:24 AM
Oh, man. :(

The one phrase we repeat over and over and over again on a baptism Sunday??? "DON'T TOUCH THE MIC!!!'' We say it kinda tongue in cheek, to tease the pastor...but we really are completely serious, trying to drum it into everyone's subconscious so it does NOT happen.

ChampcarShark
11-01-05, 02:54 PM
At my church, we tell the pastor to be as loud as possible, but if we need to use a microphone we use a wireless one.

I do not think 9 volts can kill anyone.

oddlycalm
11-01-05, 03:11 PM
Considering the low cost of wireless mics these days, there's little excuse for anyone to have a hardwired mic anywhere near water. Faith is just fine but it's not a replacement for common sense.

oc

Andrew Longman
11-01-05, 04:01 PM
Considering the low cost of wireless mics these days, there's little excuse for anyone to have a hardwired mic anywhere near water. Faith is just fine but it's not a replacement for common sense.

oc

In another article I read on this it said that doctors in the congregation did CPR on him for 40 minutes but no one called 911. That's even dumber.

Sorry if I offend anyone but not alot of smarts coming out of Texas these days. :rolleyes:

I feel badly for his wife and kids.

Methanolandbrats
11-01-05, 04:13 PM
I feel badly for his wife and kids. They're probably yammering on that he's in a better place with Jeebus.......they'll be ok as long as they stay away from hot tubs.

Ankf00
11-01-05, 04:30 PM
Waco often times makes headlines for the general lack of neural activity... David Koresh anyone?

Sucks for the pastor's family, with as much $ as Baylor bandies about you'd think they could afford wireless equipment.

TKGAngel
11-01-05, 04:36 PM
This could have been worse if the baptize-ee had been in the baptismal pool at the time.

Gnam
11-01-05, 05:19 PM
^ word. mysterious ways and whatnot.

Wabbit
11-01-05, 06:10 PM
This could have been worse if the baptize-ee had been in the baptismal pool at the time.

A sign from God perhaps?? :rofl: