There were 13 publishers meeting in Grecia, where Sisters Evelyn Ferguson (now Taylor) and Mildred Gumbs were assigned as the first special pioneers in the country. During the following year, 1945, Eugenia Dillon also joined the special pioneer ranks.

By 1949 Berta, accompanied by her daughter, was assigned to Liberia as a special pioneer, where she was joined by two of the Swaby girls.

Claudia Goodin’s two daughters, Fe and Joy, started special pioneering in 1948 in Alajuela, where another congregation had been established.

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Evelyn Ferguson (now Taylor), special pioneer since 1944, shown with her phonograph