When a ship that set off from London on 17th October, 1888, sailed to Colombo harbour in January, 1889, it brought to our country two young ladies, Miss Elizabeth Bellerby and Miss Ethel Jones who responded to an appeal made to the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society(CEZMS) to send two missionaries to open a school for Kandyan girls.

No one in that ship would have imagined in their wildest dreams that the little lady in her long white dress and prayer book in hand would form a school that would last over a hundred years. But to Miss Bellerby there would have been no fear or hesitation in coming to the East to answer God's call for, she believed that 'God moves in a mysterious way; His wonders to perform. Read More