Invite a Speaker
Invite an AFM speaker to your church for the weekend to teach and/or preach about God’s heart for Unreached People Groups. (Suggested honorarium is $250 plus travel.)
The Rev. Christopher Royer, PhD
Executive Director
chris@afm-us.org
The Rev. Chris Royer has been the Executive Director of Anglican Frontier Missions (AFM) since 2014. Born and raised in Boulder, CO, he graduated from Wheaton College with a double major in Biblical Studies and Philosophy (1989) and an M.A. from Wheaton in New Testament Studies (1989), before doing church planting in the Middle East (1990-2006).
He was ordained to the priesthood and served in parish ministry, mainly in the Diocese of South Carolina, until he was called to lead AFM (2014). Chris completed his M.Div. at Denver Seminary (2004), Diploma of Anglican Studies at Trinity Anglican Seminary (2007) and doctoral studies at Oklahoma State University (2021).
His passion is to mobilize Anglicans to do frontier missions Anglicanly through integrating the power, practices, and rhythms of the sacraments, liturgy, Great Tradition, and Anglican ecclesial structure in the spiritual formation of believers from Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, tribal, and secular backgrounds, to plant churches and dioceses.
Chris and his wife Grace have two adult daughters.
The Rev. Abbot Norman Beale
Pastor to Cross-Cultural Worker
norman@afm-us.org
Norman grew up in New Orleans and married his wife Beth in 1980. In 1982 the Beales had a shared sense of being sent by God into mission work among unreached people groups (UPGs). After study in Pasadena, CA, they followed God’s call to Nepal and later worked among the Tamang people, while also establishing the Anglican church in Nepal.
They have two children, whom they adopted in Nepal, now adults. Norman earned a master’s degree in Education, and taught elementary school for ten years. He also earned a master’s in Missions and was ordained a priest in 1996. The Beales were in Nepal from 1986-2001 and in Cambodia from 2008-2010. Norman has been an Anglican Chaplain for eleven years. In 2022, they rejoined Pastors to Cross-Cultural Workers.
The Rev. Duane Alexander Miller, PhD
AFM Cross-Cultural Worker drdamiller1232@gmail.com
The Rev. Dr. Duane Alexander Miller serves as a priest with the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church; is founding co-pastor of Kanisa, an Arabic-language fellowship; and associate professor at the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Madrid.
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He holds a BA in philosophy, an MA in theology, and diplomas in Spanish and Arabic. He was awarded a PhD in Divinity (focus on World Christianity) from the University of Edinburgh.
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Duane served as professor of church history and founding academic dean of Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary. He has published numerous articles and chapters on the topics of Christian converts from Islam, the history of Protestant missions in Ottoman Palestine, and contemporary Anglicanism in Spain.
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He is author of Two Stories of Everything: The Competing Metanarratives of Islam and Christianity (Credo, 2018),
co-author of Arab Evangelicals in Israel, and, most recently, author of I will Give them an Everlasting Name: Pastoral Care for Christ’s Converts from Islam (Regnum, 2020).
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Duane and his wife Sharon have three children.