These events were actually preliminary to the eventual assignment of Guam and the rest of the territories of Micronesia to the oversight of the Hawaii branch on January 1, 1969. Because of its proximity to these islands, it appeared that the Hawaii branch would be in a position to render better service and keep in closer touch with those few publishers on this spiritual frontier. While Brother Miller served the area as circuit overseer, Brother Kawasaki, Sr., visited the nine missionary homes once a year. Even after some of the missionaries were appointed to serve as circuit overseers, the two brothers made annual visits to the missionary homes and served as district overseers throughout Guam and Micronesia. Thus began an extremely busy and spiritually rewarding chapter in the history of the Hawaii branch.

Any initial apprehension about whether Jehovah would bless this arrangement of assigning Micronesia to the Hawaii branch was removed by the August 1970 field service report: Guam reported an 88.6-percent increase in publishers, Marshall Islands a 25-percent increase, Ponape an 82.4-percent increase, and Saipan a 114.3-percent increase. Missionaries were also successfully opening up the work in Belau (Palau), Yap, and the Truk Islands.