Adèle MacBeath was set on an academic career in the early 1960s. An MA graduate from Glasgow University with a double first, she then completed an MLitt on the Italian author Lampedusa and had embarked on doctoral studies in Rome when God intervened to redirect her life into missionary service.
She had fallen in love with David Ellis, a student at the Bible Training Institute, where her father, Andrew MacBeath, was Principal.
Missionary life was not unfamiliar to Adèle. Born in the Congo, where her parents were missionaries with the BMS, she was accepted by CIM/OMF and travelled out to Asia to marry David in 1964.
