Pastor Electrocuted While Performing Baptism
Man Grabbed Microphone While In Water

POSTED: 6:28 pm MST October 30, 2005
UPDATED: 6:30 pm MST October 30, 2005

WACO, Texas -- Funeral services are pending for a Texas pastor who was
electrocuted in front of his congregation Sunday morning while performing a
baptism.

The Rev. Kyle Lake was standing in water up to his shoulders in the
baptistry at University Baptist Church in Waco when he grabbed a microphone
and was electrocuted.

Jamie Dudley, who is married to one of the church's other pastors, said
doctors attending the service performed chest compressions on the
33-year-old minister until he was taken to a Waco hospital and declared
dead.

The woman that Lake was baptizing was unhurt, she said.

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

She said about 800 people attended the Sunday morning service, which was
larger than normal because it was homecoming weekend at nearby Baylor
University.