This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the Ruston District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction). 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 a roll of members, lay activities, resolutions, and reports from the following: Woman’s Society of Christian Service, Centenary College of Louisiana, Louisiana Methodist Children’s Home, Church Publications, the Wesley Foundation, Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation, Retired Ministers’ Homes, Board of Pensions, Methodist Home-Hospital, and New Orleans Methodist Hospital.