The pioneer missionary, Rev. J.H. Lorrain (known as Pu Buanga) and his colleague F.W. Savidge, arrived in 1894. Their immediate task was to reduce the Mizo language to writing. By 1895, they had established a mission school at Sairang. It is within this nascent Christian community that the first hymn emerged, not from the missionaries themselves, but from a young Mizo convert.
marked the beginning of systematic literacy and formal hymnody. They created the Mizo alphabet using the Roman script, which allowed for the translation of the Bible and the creation of the first written songs. The First Hymn Book (1899) mizo kristian hla hmasa ber better