Richard and Gay Toews arrived in Barbados on February 21, 1967, to take up their missionary assignment. In that same year Brother Toews was appointed to head the branch administration, and he cared well for that responsibility for 13 years. As the apostle Paul had instructed Timothy to do, the brothers in the branch during that time worked to develop and train local brothers, rather than the foreign missionaries, to handle responsibility and to take care of vital assignments.​—2 Tim. 2:2.

Gay Toews, an affable and hardworking sister, proved to be a fine missionary during the years she lived in Barbados. She became quite familiar with the “Bajan” expressions and used them frequently in her house-to-house ministry, even though the Barbadian idioms did not sound quite the same when rolled off a Canadian tongue! She experienced considerable success in directing interest to the organization. Because of ill health, in time Brother Toews and his wife, Gay, returned to Canada, where they now share in district work.

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Richard and Gay Toews, missionaries assigned to Barbados in 1967, now serving in Canada