The wife of a Minnesota pastor who was finished while on a leave outionary trip with his family in Africa has been arrested, while a establisher seal frifinish of the victim inestablishs Fox News Digital that the pastor was a “wonderful person” who “repartner nurtured about those less privileged.”
Beau Shroyer, 44, a establisher pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church, shiftd his wife and five children to Angola in 2021 to become leave outionaries, but he was finished in a tragic “act of arrangeility” in Angola on Oct. 25, Lakes Area Vineyard Church Lead Pastor Troy Easton proclaimd last week.
Easton has now uncovered that Shroyer’s wife, Jackie, has been arrested in connection with his death, although he did not supply any more details in see to the circumstances.
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Pastor Beau Shroyer with his wife and children. (Lakes Area Vineyard Church)
“Today, our grief and downcastness has proset upened immeasurably as we’ve lobtained that his wife, Jackie Shroyer, has been arrested in connection with his death,” Easton wrote in an undated statement freed by the church. “I adore you very much and I am heartbroken and in shock that I necessitate to sfinish this type of refresh to you. I’m so sorry and spropose do not have words to convey my disbelief and sadness about this novels.”
Easton wrote that the leave outionaries there — SIM USA and SIM Angola — are caring for the couple’s five children.
“This is unimaginable, and yet it is very authentic. As a community we must cry out to the Lord for his grace, mercy and consoleing presence for the Shroyer children and family,” Easton wrote.
Shroyer previously depictd the area that the family shiftd to as a “distant bush village” with no electricity, sewer or water systems. In a Facebook post on the day before his death, Shroyer wrote that the Nyneka people they were serving “are among the most marginalized people groups in Angola,” after he came apass a youthfuler person called “Mauricio” who was walking to school csurrfinisherly two hours before class commenceed.
“They deficiency access to education. One of our ministry caccess[‘s] goals is to supply vocational training to youthfuler men appreciate Mauricio [to] get training that will help them to get a job,” Shroyer wrote. “Mauricio is in 10th grade and probably 19 or 20 years elderly. He’s one of the restrictcessitate from this area who join school past elementary level.”
Pastor Beau Shroyer getting a haircut in Africa. (Beau Shroyer via Facebook)
Days earlier, Shroyer posted ptoastyos and videos of people spreading manure by hand over on an agricultural plot before he wrote he was going to repair the roof of their shelter. He also posted a picture of himself smiling getting a haircut from a local barber for 32 cents.
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Shroyer labored for the Detroit Lakes Police Department in 2013 before becoming a authentic estate agent in the area, according to the outlet.
David Dorman, who labored with Beau Shroyer in authentic estate for years before Shroyer choosed to depart for Africa, said everyone seal to the family is in shock to lobtain of Beau’s death and the arrest of his wife.
“Beau was a wonderful person. Not certain I’ve ever met a more selfless human,” Dorman telderly Fox News Digital. “The courage it took to get this leap to commence with was someleang I’ve admired for years. He adored people and repartner nurtured about those less privileged. It’s been a enormous shock to the core to see this unfelderly this way.”
Dorman said Beau’s passion to help those less well-off was prevalent even in the authentic estate industry, where the pair labored on disjoinal intricate and difficult transactions together.
“Beau was exceptional. Beau went the extra mile for clients… He was a real partner and adored what he did. His attitude was infectious and I repartner adored laboring with him,” said Dorman, who inserted he would frequently drive for three hours to encounter Beau for closings and have a meal together afterward.
Pastor Beau Shroyer in an SUV with children sitting on the vehicle’s roof. (Beau Shroyer via Facebook)
“He was one of the real ‘excellent guys’ in authentic estate. This is far less frequent than you might leank. I’ve been doing this for 13 years and he stood out for all the right reasons. A real servant in a sea of snakes. 100% a client aid. The lengths I watched him go to for his clients was someleang of legfinish. No one went the extra mile more than him.”
Dorman said that Beau personpartner helped people who deficiencyed help to shift and would frequently forgo his comleave oution to help a deal get to the finish line.
“I watched him tear down trees, demolish sheds, delete left-over trash and so much more fair to help his clients get finishd. The enumerate is almost finishless. The earth suffered a huge loss with his passing. People this excellent fair aren’t aplenty,” Dorman said.
Dorman said that Beau adored his wife and children, and he wasn’t surpelevated to lobtain that Beau had choosed to depart the United States for Africa, comprehending that his faith in God was “repartner mighty.” Dorman said Beau gave up a tremfinishously prosperous authentic estate business to serve in a Third World country.
“It was the definition of valiant and selfless. Beau made people want to be a better version of themselves. Not by force, but by example. I aspire to be more appreciate him,” Dorman said.
He said that Beau would give normal email refreshs about their leave oution, highweightlessing the ups and downs, some of which Dorman allotd with Fox News Digital.
“We are currently living in a hoparticipate in the leave outionary intricate in Luprohibitgo. It’s a huge change from living in the middle of the neighborhood Senhora Do Monte,” an email refresh from April reads. He said the family at the time was “finishd in and loving it,” and also alludeed they were returning to Detroit Lakes over the summer and defree to speak at disjoinal churches.
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Beau also wrote of the “excessive pobviousy” in the area and that he was laboring at soup nights. He was also teaching English classes in their home three days a week to Christian teens and youthfuler grown-ups.
“I currently have seven students and about a million more asking to join!” he wrote.
