About Us

Our History

Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) arrived at Amritsar on February 9, 1852 and soon, after consolidating their work, they began to spread it into the adjoining areas. In 1866, Mian Sadiq, a son of a headman of Narowal, respected and trusted in missionary circles, opened the Batala mission. Soon the Church Of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) selected Batala as a mission station and opened five schools which were exclusively reserved for the education and emancipation of the women of the tehsil. Mian Sadiq took responsibility for the general supervision of the school.

In 1877, Mian Sadiq persuaded Miss Charlotte Maria Tucker to adopt Batala as her home.Francis Henry Baring, along with Babu Ishan Chandra Singha, opened a school in the outskirts of the Batala city with the view to educate. However, the Anarkali seems to have attracted him because of its commodious accommodation, which would provide his school the basic needs to function.At the same time all three together, Rev. Baring, Miss Tucker and Babu Singha, worked as a team to promote education and evangelism among the people of the area. With these ends in mind, on March 28, 1878, Rev. Baring left Amritsar to start the Batala Boys Boarding School with the twofold purpose of promoting education and spreading the gospel in the Batala tehsil. The present Baring School, resuscitated in 1973, the college established in 1944, and the Christian Institute of Religious Studies established as recently as 1966, . Also Baring School Jandiala Guru in 2016 and Baring Institute Of Theology in 2020 were established. Baring is further expanding its educational activity by opening a Baring School at Ajnala.

BUCCA OBJECTIVES

The Association is a charitable non-profit society of the Indian Christian Community, registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, for the purpose of establishing and administering educational institutions of its own choice under the provisions of Article 30 of the Constitution of India. It exists for the imparting of sounds education and for the development of citizenship imbued with the true ideals of life and service, in keeping with the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ as contained in the Holy Bible and the traditions and practices of the Christian Churches.

In furtherance of the objects, the Association

Has establishing and administers the Baring Union Christian College, the Baring School and the Christian institute for Religious Studies.
May establish and administer other academic institutions.
Makes available the opportunity for higher education to deserving students regardless of social, religious or economic status.
Helps students to understand and profit from the opportunities of modern life.
Aspires to make students educated and useful citizens, capable of appreciating the riches of their own and other cultures, of enjoying the benefits of the modern age, and of taking their places as responsible members of society.
Attempts to enlarge the vision of students of their world and their relations to other persons in it and foster in them a sense of nationhood, transcending, the barriers of wealth, social standing, language and religion, and enlarge their sense of loyalty to include not only the local interest, but also the national and international interest.
Aims to develop in the students an attitude of responsibility in the pursuit of knowledge, in the conduct of everyday life, and in their relations to their fellowmen, believing that intellectual honesty, personal integrity, and high moral values are essential aspect of the intellectual life.
Helps young people of India by means of constant presentation of the Gospel through Christian instruction, testimony and example, to find new life in Christ.
Stimulates intellectual curiosity and devotion to sound knowledge, both for its own sake and for the sake of its application in serving the needs of mankind, creates in students a sense of wonder, a disciplined imagination, an attitude of persistence and thoroughness, and an appreciation of academic excellence, believing that they should also be made to see the relevence of theoretical knowledge to the practical demands of a changing world.
Cultivates in the students an ability to make mature judgements in matters of truth, authenticity and excellence, feeling that a discerning mind is as important as the accumulation of factual knowledge.
Seeks to remain a centre of experimentation and innovation, and to act as a resource centre for higher education in India and abroad.

To achieve these objectives BUCCA runs the following institution: