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Pastor Beau Shroyer has been cutting hair in Africa lately. (Beau Shroyer via Facebook)

ANGOLA (FOX 9) – A former pastor for Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, he was KILLED while doing missionary work in South Africa.

What we know

In an update, the church’s senior pastor, Troy Easton, said that “our dear brother and friend Beau Shroyer was killed in an act of violence while serving Jesus in Angola, Africa,” on Friday, October 25 .

The details of his death remain unclear. However, the church says it will seek to comfort Shroyer’s wife and five children in their time of grief.

Shroyer, 44, was a former pastor at Lakes Area Vineyard Church and moved to Angola with his family in 2021 after becoming a missionary with SIM USA – an evangelistic organization in North Carolina.

The philanthropic heart

right Detroit Lakes TribuneShroyer worked for the Detroit Lakes Police Department in 2013 before becoming a real estate agent prior to his missionary work.

In a social media post a day before his death, Shroyer wrote on Facebook about meeting a young student walking to school, saying that “one of the reasons why the Nyneka people, who we serve, are among the most marginalized people groups in Angola” was the lack of access to education.

“Please pray for Mauricio and others like him who spend half their day going to and from school,” the post said.

An earlier post details “spreading manure by hand on a 40×16 meter farm” as part of a daily task he had performed in Angola.

What we don’t know

Authorities have not yet said whether charges will be filed against any potential suspects.