Ruthann and Jan Hall are members of Trinitarian Congregational Church in Concord, Massachusetts who have served as Global Ministries missionary volunteers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.   (They have archived web site and newsletter items from that time, which can be accessed at their 'Durban Mission Archive' site.) 

Since returning from that work in 2002, they have sought to establish direct church-to-church connections of local Massachusetts Conference UCC churches with local churches of the KwaZulu-Natal Region of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa.

 They now spend about half of each year in Massachusetts and in KwaZulu-Natal, working with the participating churches and meeting with additional churches interested in being part of this new approach to mission.  They have been back in Massachusetts since August; they plan next be returning to KZN in April 2007.

Their general newsletters to friends in the US during their 2005 visit to KZN, are archived here.

NEW:  Their further general newsletters to friends in the US during their 2006 visit to KZN, are archived here.

NEW:  Their general newsletters to friends in the US during their 2007 visit to KZN, AND report letters and photo galleries provided to participating MaCUCC churches concerning several of these visits, are archived here.

Contact them (Massachusetts) at 640 Devenwood Way, Clinton, MA 01510 USA or P.O. Box 588, Carlisle, MA 01741 USA; tel. (978) 733-1421; fax (978) 418-6010; e-mail i3L@comcast.net. 

Contact them (KwaZulu-Natal) c/o KZN Region UCCSA, P.O. Box 51281, Musgrave 4062, Rep. of South Africa; tel. and fax (031) 202-1607.

Updated:  September 5, 2007