Our History

In the Fall of 2005, Laurie Bailey set out to establish a Christian Sorority on the campus of the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Laurie prayed about this decision for quite some time and felt that God was pushing her to begin a new Christian sisterhood.

With help from the Theta chapter of Kappa Upsilon Chi in 2006, Laurie was able to write out the rituals, constitutions, infrastructure, accountability guidelines and the other necessary components for national organization.

In the Spring of 2006, curiosity began to grow in the hearts of several girls about starting Theta Alpha at the University of Florida.

Caroline Burns, a junior at the University of Florida, worked with Laurie to establish both the Alpha and Beta chapters of Theta Alpha. Florida State held initiation on April 20, 2006, when they initiated their eleven charter members, as well as four officers from the University of Florida all in the same night. On April 28, 2006, University of Florida held their own initiation for their two remaining officers and five charter members.

Theta Alpha recognizes Laurie Bailey, Caroline Burns, Kristen Rupert, Lindsey Soulis, and Kaitlin Griffiths are recognized as founders of Theta Alpha at the national level.

In its first year of existence, the Alpha chapter held two rounds of recruitment and initiated three new charters and four women. The Beta chapter also held two rounds of recruitment and initiated eighteen in the Fall of 2006 and eighteen in the Spring of 2007.

Spring of 2008, Theta Alpha colonized at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

To date, Theta Alpha's campus ministry has held hundreds of weekly chapter meetings, prayer events, outreachers, dozens of formals and socials, semester retreats, and weekly accountability group meetings. We've inducted and initiated hundreds of college women. And we praise the Lord for all those who have accepted Christ as their personal Lord and Savior in these last four years as a result of their involvement with our ministry.

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