Please don't throw away your membership.

Is there a Bible study in your chapter? If not, perhaps you could find a few other sisters who would like to do one together. You can schedule it around chapter events. I really enjoyed mine when I was in college.

I remember how challenging it was to fit it all in - church, family, sorority, campus, academics... But I truly believed God had put me in the sorority He did for a reason. I did devote less time to my church, but I had a ministry in my chapter. That was in many ways far more important than anything I could have done in my local church. I would encourage you to see your sorority membership as a unique opportunity to live out your faith in loving and practical ways with your sorority sisters and not as a hindrance to being at church.

Not trying to derail or turn this into a South vs. North vs. East, etc.; but, is it common for some campuses to schedule initiations, philanthropies, and such on Sundays?

Greeks at my school never scheduled events on Sundays. We did have meetings on Sundays nights, but they started at 7:45 or 8 in order for members like myself to attend evening services. We might have scheduled an IFC rush event on a Sunday afternoon, but it would definately be over by 4 o'clock.

The only things we had on Sunday were intramurals and they were in the afternoon and we had chapter meetings on Tues. nights. It didn't conflict with typical church times.

Something doesn't sound right here. Let's say there are 36 Sundays in a school year and go from there.

While the chapters with whom I have worked (7-9) have occasionally had Initiation on Sunday morning, they've never regularly had anything else. Initiation is ONE TIME a year, TWO if you take a New Member class both semesters. This leaves 34 Sunday mornings.

If the school is having Bid Day on Sunday, again, this is ONE DAY per year. So now we're down to 33 Sunday mornings free. This would be a Panhellenic decision, so talking with the chapter advisor about your chapter's delegate working on this in your Panhellenic would possibly be a better route to take here.

I can't imagine why a chapter would hold philanthropy events every Sunday morning. Philanthropy events require PEOPLE to give you money or to participate, and it just doesn't mesh with my experience of current college campuses that so many people are out walking campus on Sunday morning to donate to your table, play volleyball in the sand, jump on a trampoline, etc...... So this chapter holds or participates in around 30 philanthropy events each school year?????

Yes, many organizations hold chapter meetings on Sunday evenings, and it can be during the same time as evening services. That does not prevent attending morning services (unless, as we are led to believe, the chapter holds philanthropy events every Sunday morning), attending chapel during the week, Wednesday night services, or weekday Bible studies.

While I know that it can seem like a chapter has something going on "all the time," this is rarely actually the truth, except during Greek Week, Recruitment Week and possibly Homecoming Week. There is a better solution than throwing away a lifetime of sisterhood. *You* (meaning any member of a Greek organization who faces this problem) just have to be willing to look for it.

OP, if you still follow us here on GC has there been a manageable outcome for you regarding your issue?

Would you mind sharing it for future readers of your thread?