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Agricultural Missions in India: The Gospel and the Plow Sangli Movable School "...Love of mother earth is found in every country but no where more strikingly than in India." So said Presbyterian missionary John Goheen of his agricultural work in India during the 1930s. Born in India to Presbyterian missionaries, John traveled to western India in 1911, with his wife, Jane, to take charge of the Sangli BoysÌ School. As a way to tap into Indian love of the earth, Goheen developed the boysÌ school into an industrial and agricultural institute. Focusing on ways to improve living conditions in rural India, the school eventually grew to include a movable extension service. In a November 1934 letter written to supporters at home, Goheen describes the efforts of the movable school and its effects upon the population: "The Sangli Movable School, one of the special features of the extension work of the Industrial & Agricultural School, will be very much Îon moveÌ once this touring begins. It has developed a reputation for itself near and far. Its work truly is of a most positive Christian character, a work much needed in these villages where there is very little conception of the meaning of Îfullness of life.Ì" Boys learning auto mechanics at Sangli, ca. 1934. (RG 223-4-19). Click for enlargement. The Sangli school improved farm productivity by introducing Western animal breeds such as the chickens in this photograph, ca. 1934. (RG 223-4-19). Click for enlargement.   <<previous | Heritage Sunday 2003 | next>> >> Introduction >> Allahabad Agricultural Institute >> Sangli Movable School >> India Village Service >> Rural Community School at Moga

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