Six more missionaries, Percy and Ilma Iszlaub, Adrian Thompson, Lloyd and Melba Barry and Lyn Robbins, arrived at Yokohama October 31, 1949, bringing the total of missionaries, including the three Tohara children, to sixteen.

A number of those early studies bore fine fruit. Melba Barry relates that on her first morning of witnessing in Japan, at one of the very first houses, the lady, Miyo Takagi, received her kindly. She was impressed because the missionaries had walked over a muddy field to reach her home. On return calls they struggled with the help of Japanese-English dictionaries to understand each other, until a fine study developed. To this day Miyo Takagi and her neighbor who joined the study are serving as Kingdom ministers, one of them having spent more than ten years in regular pioneer work.