A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUTCHINGS SCHOOL, TALEGAON

Nurturing Local/Global CITIZENS:

Hutchings School, Talegaon is a unit of the Mumbai Regional Conference of the Methodist Church in India. The Mumbai Regional Conference has been remembering the work of God rendered through the then missionaries who sacrificially served the people of Talegaon with the love of Jesus Christ, and the school was established in 1887. The school currently managed by Bishop Dr. Anil Kumar John Servand, the Chairman, Mrs. Shobha Cornelius, the Principal, Rev. Joseph Dhalwale, the manager, and the managing committee members.

This unit made a landmark achievement in 2009, and it was inaugurated on the 24th October, 2009 under the leadership of Bishop Dr. Elia Pradeep Samuel as the Chairman, Rev. Dr. C. Selvin as the manager and Mrs M.S. Bhosle as the Principal. Today, Hutchings School, Talegaon has over 1300 students in 13 years from in and around Talegaon Dhabhade Town and is growing day by day, and follows the (CISCE) Council of Indian Schools Certificate Examination. The deep roots of CISCE are from Cambridge curriculum. Hutchings School, Talegaon is born from the oldest Methodist School, which stands tall in Pune as Hutchings High School and Junior College, an Anglo-Indian School.  with a well-deserved reputation for delivering a high-quality education programme for over 143 years. (Further details https://hutchingsschoolpune.in) The Hutchings School, Talegaon management quickly introduced its current policy of recruiting only the best qualified teachers from the country and began to receive recognition of its commitment to high standards from local, regional, and global manner.

The History of Hutching School, Talegaon:

Since the year 1981, when the Methodist Church in India became an autonomous and affiliated body; the institution grew further in strength and stature under the leadership of Indian church leaders. From 1990 onward, many projects have been executed under the partnership between the Methodist Church in India (MCI) and Korean Churches by initiation of Rev. C. T. Baek and Rev. James Kumar. Under the partnership the MRC (Mumbai Regional Conference) and GPI (Good People International, Korea) proposed the School and Hostel Project at Talegaon at the time of Bishop Aggarwal. The groundbreaking ceremony was done by Rev. Dr. David Yonggi Cho, the founder of GPI and an Emeritus Pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, Korea on February 5, 2002, along with Bishop Aggarwal, all the district superintendents, pastors, and local church members. The first president of the GPI, Elder Byung Hoon Lee, and the Board CEO, Rev. Younghoon Lee, in charge of Yoido Full Gospel Church, Republic of Korea generously began to support and then Mumbai Regional Conference started to construct the school and hostel building under the Memorandum of Understanding in partnership. All the leaders had shared the vision of School as mentioned in the monument “If you have a cherished vision, the vision will lead you. Hope and pray for achieving that vision. Put your faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ and give thanks in all circumstances. Above all, trusts in the Lord and go into all the nations for sharing the Good News. I wish you will be respectable leader who recites HIS Gospel to ends of the earth.”

Church in India for the Glory of God:

After commencement of construction work started from the 5th February, 2002, all the bishops have concentrated and planned the school building project with the different perspective to start an English medium school. Furthermore, contributions were made by GPI under the leadership of Elder Mr. Byung Hoon Lee, then the president of GPI, Korea. And various contribution has also been done by many elders of Yoido Full Gospel Church, Rev. C.T. Baek, pastor of Bombay Korean Church as the project manager and Rev. Wesley Cho of Korean Methodist Church, and Hutchings High School and Junior College, Pune. We remember and appreciate their contribution and prayer support with gratitude.   

However, the school building was not fully completed for use till 2009. At this juncture the then Bishop of MRC formed the committee along with Hutchings High School and Junior College, Pune adapted the project and completed the building project and started its branch as Hutchings High School, Talegaon. The same was dedicated and inaugurated for the glory of God and edification of humankind on 24th October 2009 by Bishop Dr. Elia Pradeep Samuel, Bishop of Bombay Episcopal Area, MCI and the tablet unveiled by Madam Monica Aruna Samuel, with the presence of the first president of GPI, Elder Byung Hoon Lee and Elder Han Soo Choi. Finally, on 26th day of October 2011, with the further contribution from GPI, the hostel building was completed and dedicated by Bishop Pradeep Samuel, the Bishop of Bombay Episcopal Area, BRC and Elder Chang Myung Kim, the president of GPI, which now stands as the Community Development Centre (CDC).

The services of the following leaders are greatly appreciable.