This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the Ruston District of the Louisiana Conference A 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 a roll of members, lay activities, resolutions, and reports from the following: Women’s Society of Christian Service, Wesleyan Service Guild, Centenary College of Louisiana, Louisiana Methodist Children’s Home, the Wesley Foundation, Board of Pensions, the Methodist Hospital, and the New Orleans Methodist Hospital.