This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the Ruston District of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church. These meetings were attended by the district’s clergy and lay delegates from each pastoral charge; it was presided over by the district superintendent.

The minutes document the administrative activities of the meetings and regularly include information about lay activities, resolutions, and reports from the following: United Methodist Women, the Wesley Foundation, Louisiana Methodist Children’s Home, Centenary College of Louisiana, and the Methodist Home Hospital.