SFCI Leadership

Dr. Michée Badé
SFCI Director

Dr. Michée B. Badé serves as director for the Set Free In Christ Institute where he leads a team operated by AFM to provide Seventh-day Adventist practitioners in spiritual warfare spiritual support, a Biblical and Spirit of Prophecy foundation for spiritual warfare, and a practical field manual that contains best practices, proven by practitioners around the world, of how to partner with God in helping people experience freedom in Christ. Dr Badé is an ordained minister who has served as a frontline worker for Adventist Frontier Missions for 16 years in West Africa and North Africa, helping to raise church-planting movements in the region. He holds a BA in Theology from Andrews University and an MA and a Ph.D. in Missiology from the University of the Free State in South Africa, where he is a research fellow. 

SFCI Steering Committee

Dr. Bruce Bauer

After completing a BA in Theology, Bruce Bauer spent 15 years in Japan, five years in Micronesia, and three and a half years in Cambodia as a front-line missionary.  Throughout these years, he completed an MA in Religion, an MA in Missiology, and his Doctorate in Missiology. More recently, he taught missions at Andrews University for 26 years before retiring. He remains editor of the Journal of Adventist Mission Studies, and edited the Finding Freedom in Jesus, a Deliverance Ministry Manual. Dr. Bauer is a board member of Adventist Frontier Missions, serving in this capacity since its establishment in 1985.

Brad Mills

Brad Mills is president of Adventist Frontier Missions. Prior to serving with AFM, Brad served in a wide range of mission contexts, from the Amazon basin in South America to a bustling metropolis in a North African country. He holds nearly two decades of international experience in both nonprofit administration and mission-driven leadership. Brad’s previous roles have included leadership positions with the Middle East and North Africa Union, Northwest Brazil Union, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), and several Urban Centers of Influence. He has served as a professor, church planter, nonprofit director, and mission strategist—always with a heart for service and a calling to uplift and disciple communities through Christ-centered initiatives. 

Susan Payne

Susan Payne has enjoyed several careers throughout her lifetime as a registered nurse, home-schooling mother and missionary to Papua New Guinea.  Throughout her travels, she has conducted seminars in Brazil, Europe, South Africa, and PNG. After retiring as the development director at Adventist Frontier Missions where she guided donor ministry for 20 years, she now serves on AFM's board of directors. 
One of her greatest passions is watching Jesus set people free from the snares of the enemy.  She looks forward to singing praises to the Creator and Savior of the universe on the sea of glass with people from every nation, kindred, tribe and tongue.