Detroit Lakes man killed on mission trip in Angola, Africa

A missionary from Detroit Lakes was killed in a village in Angola, Africa, on Friday, Oct. 25, according to a notice from Lakes Area Vineyard Lead Pastor Troy Easton.

The notice, addressed to the Lakes Area Vineyard congregation, states that Beau Shroyer was killed in an act of violence while doing mission work and that details about the incident remain unknown at this time.

Shroyer had a wife and five children.

“Moments like these create so many unanswerable questions for us and it adds to the pain to know that we may never understand why our Father has allowed something like this to happen,” Easton’s notice read. “And yet, amidst the shock and grief, we must not forget the truths found in the scriptures that point to His wise, merciful, gracious, faithful, trustworthy, and always loving character as well as the truth that Beau was a man who, because of his love for the Lord, gave His life to pointing the lost, the hurting, the desperate and the broken to the God who rescued, saved and transformed his life.”

Shroyer joined the Detroit Lakes Police Department in 2013 before becoming a real estate agent in the area. In 2021, he, his wife and their five children moved to Africa to become missionaries. They have been there since.

The area is one that Shroyer described as a “remote bush village” with no electricity, sewer or water systems.