WELCOME TO KAPPA CHI

NAME

The name of Kappa Chi is derived from the first two letters of the Greek words "Kerukes Christos" meaning "Preachers of Christ." The world has many needs: better health, more wealth, sounder knowledge, and many others; but the most important need is to know about the life which Christ lived and the ideals which he advanced for the lives of others.

MEMBERSHIP

Kappa Chi is an honorary fraternity composed of men and women undergraduate students dedicated to being Christian in their respective vocations and to giving of themselves in Christian service. Honorary memberships may be presented to other individuals as decided by a vote of the membership.

PURPOSE

To cultivate among ourselves personal and Christian fellowship as we prepare together for our common task.
To gain instruction and inspiration from Christian leaders in the world at large.
To exalt the Christian ministry and full-time Christian work.
To dedicate ourselves to all paths of Christian living and service.
To make our lives an inspiration for Christian living and service.
To encourage young people to enter full-time Christian service.
To unite into a national fraternity of Christian service undergraduate college students who feel called of God into full-time Christian work.

In short, "Kappa Chi is organized for the purpose of providing and promoting a medium of instruction, inspiration, and realization of true fraternity in order that its members may share worship, fellowship, and service based on the high ideals of Jesus Christ."

MEANING OF THE SYMBOLS

The symbols of Kappa Chi are very simple, and in this simplicity lies their beauty. The central symbol is the cross of Christ in all its shining glory, symbolizing the Great Sacrifice, and through it, the infinite love of God. Placed at the center of the cross is a triangle representing the Holy Trinity, and around the triangle is the unbroken circle of Christian fellowship, signifying our oneness in God, in Christ, and in the Holy Spirit. Finally engraved upon the truck of the cross is the Greek word for service, "Therepeia." Service is out key word, for through it men are bound to Christ. Putting them together, we get this: we are disciples of Christ, bearing His cross, in the fellowship of His service, joined together to the glory of God and the realization of His kingdom.

HISTORY

In 1928 at Evansville College, an organization sponsored by Dr. Howard F. Legg and consisting of per-theological students was formed. It came to be known as the Double Alpha Club, driving its name from the initials of the words "Adelphol Agapetoi," meaning "brother beloved." At first they were called the Alpha Alpha Club. (One day the dean of college announced a meeting and spoke the words so rapidly that is sounded like the Alfalfa Club, so the name was changed.) Amos Boren was the first president of the organization.
When Dr. Earl Harper, president of Evansville College, left Indiana to undertake the presidency of Simpson College, Indianaola, Iowa, he brought to the new post the ideas and purposes of the ministerial organization. Here, in 1936, Ira B. Allen, then a student at Simpson, reorganized the purposes of the Double Alpha Club and culminated his efforts by giving to the newly formed ministerial association the name of Kappa Chi. It was he who compiled the original constitution and who was elected Kappa Chi's first president. Thus through the efforts of a few Christian men over several years, out fraternity came to birth in the Simpson chapter which became the Alpha Chapter in 1936. The Double Alpha Club at Evansville was superseded by Kappa Chi in 1941.
Kappa Chi is a national organization, the first national chapter being set up at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa in 1946. The Beta Chapter of Kappa Chi at Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana was the National Chapter from 1964 to 1972. In 1972, by motion of the National Convention, the Upsilon Chapter at Pfeiffer College, Mesenheimer, North Carolina, became the National Chapter.