[Mb-civic] Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism

[Alexander Harper]

God moves in a mysterious way...

One can only be relieved that this sort of problem could not have occurred while John the Baptist was trying to make himself heard. Imagine all the dead fish, Samaritans, publicans and, barring a miracle, the Baptist himself, floating down the River Jordan, belly up.

Clearly one feels the deepest sympathy for the Rev. Kyle's surviving dependents being so abruptly - if you will, shockingly - deprived of their parent, provider and helpmeet but at least one can comfort oneself with the thought that at the moment he was called To Higher Service the Rev. Kyle's soul must have been in pretty good shape, something which one might not necessarily have been able to say , for instance, of a former Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, who expired happily (and possibly slightly drier) in the arms of his mistress.

Al B


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jef Bek" <jefbek at mindspring.com>
To: "Civic List" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Subject: [Mb-civic] Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:46:45 -0800

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> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/31/national/main995829.shtml
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> Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism
> WACO, Texas, Oct. 31, 2005
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> (AP) A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church after
> grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a church employee said.
> 
> The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water in a baptismal at University
> Baptist Church when he was electrocuted Sunday morning, said Jamie Dudley, a
> church business administrator and wife of another pastor there. The water in
> a baptismal usually reaches above the waist, said Byron Weathersbee, interim
> university chaplain at Baylor University.
> 
> Lake was stepping into the baptismal when he reached out to adjust a nearby
> microphone, which produced an electric shock, said Ben Dudley, the church's
> community pastor.
> 
> Doctors in the congregation rushed to help Lake, who had collapsed, Ben
> Dudley said. Lake was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical
> Center, where nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said he was pronounced dead.
> 
> The woman Lake was baptizing apparently had not stepped into the water, Ben
> Dudley said. She was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but was not
> seriously injured, he said.
> 
> Pastors at University Baptist Church routinely use a microphone during
> baptisms, Jamie Dudley said.
> 
> "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, she said.
> 
> "At first, there was definitely confusion just because everyone was trying
> to figure out what was going on," Ben Dudley said in a story in Monday's
> Waco Tribune-Herald. "Everyone just immediately started praying."
> 
> Lake, who had a wife and three children, had been at the church for nine
> years, the last seven as pastor, she said.
> 
> 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.
> 
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