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(From Irish Independent)
A PASTOR has been killed by an electric shock after grabbing a microphone while performing a baptism in water.
The Rev Kyle Lake (33), was partly submerged at University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas - only 14 miles from President Bush's Crawford ranch - while baptising a woman in front of 800 people. He reached out to adjust a microphone when he was killed.
The church, co-founded by David Crowder, one of the biggest "rock stars" of Christian music, is popular with students from nearby Baylor University, the largest Baptist university in the world.
"He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear," Jamie Dudley, a church business administrator, said. "It's the only way you can be loud enough."
FATAL JOLT
Doctors in the congregation rushed to help Mr Lake, who collapsed after being struck by the ...