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Terrible Tragedy ...
My new TA, Sam Larson called yesterday after noon from Waco with the
news of this tragedy. Sam was in attendance at the service and Kyle
Lake was his close friend and mentor, in fact Kyle was the person that
challenged Sam to consider seminary and ministry. Pray for Kyle's wife
and kids as well as Sam and the other young people that Kyle had such a
profound eternal impact on ... Thanks! Sam
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. |
| | Posted 10/31/2005 3:50 PM - 41 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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