This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the Shreveport District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 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 the following reports: religious and financial state of churches, Sunday School work, missions, and denominational education and literature, Epworth Leagues (young adult associations), Woman’s Missionary Societies, and lay activities.

Note: the 1933-1940 Shreveport District Conference minute book contains the 1940 meeting minutes for the newly formed Shreveport District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church, South Central Jurisdiction.