A former Detroit Lakes police officer and real estate agent who moved to Angola, Africa, for missionary work with his wife and five children in 2021 was killed last week.
Troy Easton, senior pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes, said in a message to his congregation over the weekend that Beau Schroyer, 44, “was killed while serving Jesus in Angola, Africa. He was killed in an act of violence.”
“At this time, there are still many unknowns about what happened, but we are in contact with his wife Jackie and are doing everything we can to be there for her at this shocking and frightening time. “There are,” Easton said in the article. message.
Detroit Lakes Police Chief Steve Todd, who attended the Vineyard, said Sunday’s service was somber, especially for those who had just heard of the tragedy.
“They shared the shocking news on Saturday and then talked about the situation for a few minutes on Sunday,” Todd said in a phone interview. “It was a sad time for those who didn’t receive the email and found out what happened in limited detail. I don’t know exactly what happened, but I think he was killed. ”
The Schroyer family worked with SIM USA, a missionary organization founded in 1893 in Charlotte, North Carolina. SIM USA President Randy Fairman said in a message to Lakes Area Vineyard Church that the Schroyer family was one of the first families to move to Angola after the pandemic lockdown eased. spoke.
Fairman said she was heading to Angola in hopes of comforting the family and providing more information to the congregation. Phone calls left with SIM USA and Lakes Area Vineyard Church were not returned Monday.
Todd said Schroyer was a police officer for about seven years before entering the real estate industry. He said Schroyer is well known in the town of 10,000 people. Todd said the family returned to Detroit Lakes for the summer and shared their missionary work in Africa during Sunday services, including a weekly soup night in which they invited community members to their home.
