Pray for the Family of Kyle Lake
I didn't know Kyle personally...Riddle was becoming friends with him. I read about his death on Marko's blog. Here's the AP story via the Houston Chronicle:

WACO — A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a worker at the church said.

University Baptist Church Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water up to his shoulder in a baptismal when electrocuted, said Jamie Dudley, wife of UBC community pastor Ben Dudley and a business adminstrator at the church.

The woman Lake was baptising was not injured, Jamie Dudley said.
She said doctors attending the service did chest compressions for 40 minutes before Lake was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center.

Dudley said it's common for the pastor to use the microphone during baptisms.
"He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear," Dudley said. "It's the only way you can be loud enough."

Dudley said about 800 people were attending the morning service. She said the service was larger than normal because it was homecoming weekend at Baylor University, located near the church.

Dudley said Lake had been at the church for nine years, the last seven as pastor. She said Lake had a wife and three children.

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