What is Sigma Gamma Chi?
What is Sigma Gamma Chi?
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Founded in 1967
Sigma Gamma Chi
is the Church fraternity for college men. It operates under the
direction of the Church Educational System and is designed to provide a balanced fraternity
experience based on Church standards and the six ideals of the fraternity.
THE SIX IDEALS
SPIRITUALITY
BROTHERHOOD
SCHOLARSHIP
LEADERSHIP
SERVICE
PATRIOTISM
MOTTO
SERVICE TO GOD AND COUNTRY
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
*Supports LDSSA purposes and principles.
*Encourages continuing gospel study and participation in institute classes.
*Provides opportunities for personal, community, and Church service.
*Strenghtens worthy personal ideals, goals and aspirations.
*Promotes wholesome social involvement and growth.
*Provides leadership opportunities and experience.
*Fosters immediate and lasting friendships and brotherhood with others who have similar ideals and standards.
*Provides opportunities for missionary preparation and service.
*Promotes excellence in academic preparation and scholarship.
*Strengthens testimonies of the truthfulness of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
*Keeps returned missionaries close to the Church.
*Provides an atmosphere where non-Latter-day Saints can learn about the Church and less-active members can return to activity.
Statistical information also indicates the benefits of Sigma Gamma Chi membership.
The average grade point average of Sigma Gamma Chi members is 3.3. Of Sigma Gamma Chi
members, 95 percent marry in the temple, 64 percent serve missions, and 24 non-Latter-day
Saint fraternity members join the Church.
WHO CAN JOIN?
Single college-age men willing to live Latter-day Saint standards may join.
ACTIVITIES
Sigma Gamma chi offers various activies:
*Weekly meetings based on the six ideals
*Social events
*Firesides and other spiritual occasions
*Exchanges with the Lambda Delat Sigma sorority
*Service opportunities
CHAPTERS
Sigma Gamma Chi chapters have been established in Arizona, California, Colorado,
Hawaii, Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
There are over sixty chapters on more than forty-five campuses.
For more information, contact Brother Peacock at the
St. George LDS Institute of Religion:
865 E 100 South
ST GEORGE UT 84770-3082
Phone:
(435) 673-4609
sigmagammachi@hotmail.com
