He was overseas from America for much of 1967–8, starting with attending the election of a regional assembly in west central Africa. In 1968 Sears was at a centennial of Baháʼu'lláh's arrival at the prison of Akka in 1868 with 9 other Hands of the Cause and some 2300 Baháʼís at a conference in Palermo, Sicily before going to Haifa as a group. He then toured Baháʼí communities in the United Kingdom. In December he helped dedicate a new Baháʼí center in San Bernardino, California followed by attending several of the series of conferences arranged by the newly formed institution of the Continental Counsellors held across North America at Quebec, Ontario, Georgia, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, Saskatchewan and British Columbia into March 1969. In April he attended the US National Baháʼí Convention, speaking several times, and in September Sears helped dedicate a new Baháʼí center at Desert Hot Springs, California. Meanwhile, "God Loves Laughter" was included in donations to a library and taped talks of his were used for a youth conference in Australia and Honduras in 1968.