Well, Match.com 
has made a huge comeback, not only increasing sales over 25% in 2006 in the UK and US, but also buying up some of the largest dating sites in China and Europe.
Although Match.com advertises to Christian singles in the UK, it is not a Christian dating site, per se. However, we decided to review Match.com on this site simply because there are tens of thousands of beleivers who use this site. Also, it has the largest online international dating database in the world, with numerous search variables. If you don’t believe me, check out the Guiness Book of World Records. Yup, Match.com is right in there!
I know some believers have issues with Match.com because it’s a non-Christian site and has Dr Phil as it’s poster child. But as one Christian single gal put it, “People who judge me for looking for a Christian date on Match.com should also think about their own logic next time they step into a public library, a Walmart or click onto Amazon.com.” Now there’s a woman with some spunk!
Finding Single Christians on Match.com
Right now Match.com has has more than 1.4 million active subscribers and 13.7 million nonpaying members who can search the databases for singles in their own particular area.
What I really like about Match.com search features is that you can search by keywords (Match.com refers to it as “match words”) for your Christian date. In a free membership one can search, create a profile with photo gallery and even send winks” to someone your find appealing. However, in order to receive and send email you need to upgrade to a paid membership.
Match.com Prices
Our advice to any amateur using Match.com is to simply remain as a non paying member or “voyeur” as they call it, until you have made a list of several Christian dating match possibilities. Here are the US Match.com prices. You can check out the UK Match.com prices by simply clicking this Match.com link :
- 6 month plan-$19.99 (per month)
- 3 month plan-$22.99 (per month)
- 1 month plan ($39.99 per month)
If you want to throw in Dr. Phil’s “Mind-Find-Bind” video and audio relationship advice, which I think is a waste, you would have to throw in an extra $9 dollars per month.
Match.com Crowns
- Without a doubt, the huge search engine filled with over 1.4 million members.
- The number of search variables, including keyword search for mutual Christians
- A true international dating service that reaches the USA, Canada, Asia, the UK and all of Europe, South America and Africa.
Match.com Pitchforks
- Not specifically a Christian dating service, although their are tens of thousands of Christian men and women using the site
If you’re a single Christian who has used Match.com, would you consider sharing your experiences with others?
Meet Christian Men and Women at Match.com Now!
Other International Dating and Free Trial Dating Sites:
AmericanSingles
Christian Cafe
Christian Mingle…Relationships.com
EHarmony
PerfectMatch-PerferctMatch.com
Yahoo Personals
Christian Cupid
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The Christian Dating Services like eHarmony listed on Christian Dating Service PLUS are the most popular dating sites Christian singles use. In fact, one of the purposes of this website is to help singles find godly relationships through reputable Christian dating services. We felt especially strongly about this since there are so many dating websites purporting to be Christian dating services.
Before Using Christian Dating Services
If you’re thinking about using Christian dating services, please keep in mind the following dating advice before taking the plunge:
Christian Dating Services Are Not The Be All To End All.
Don’t get me wrong, there are lots of benefits to using online Christian dating services. However, the above statement needs emphasis because the mullti-million dollar ad campaigns of some Christians dating services like eHarmony and Perfectmatch.com make it seem like finding a Christian soul mate will be an “in the bag” experience if only you use their dating services. Of course, that’s simply not the case. Online Christian dating services are, however, one of a number of great tools God uses to help Christian singles meet and marry.
Christian Dating Services Have A Learning Curve.
That’s right. Some Christians get frustrated when using Christian dating services because they are not able to find a decent date. Ever wonder why? Here are the top reasons some singles have a poor online dating experience:
- The databases and search features of the Christian dating services they are using are not that good.
- The poor single guy or girl doesn’t know how to begin using Christian dating services .
- Failure results due to a combination of the above two reasons.
Most of the Christian dating services, including those reviewed on this site, offer free trial memberships with no obligation. Under these circumstances (No, I’m not cheap, just a little thrifty!), I recommend joining a number of Christian dating services in order to familiarize yourself with what each offers (search, chat, forums, penpals, prayer,etc), and how they work. Read this to understand why this is a good idea.
Christian Dating Services Pre-Dating Checklist
You’re almost ready to launch into using online Christian dating services. That’s great! Going over some pre-dating tips will not only help you keep a Christian perspective, but may also keep you from making some stupid, costly mistakes you will regret later. Have fun!
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There are multiple thousands of Catholic singles all over the world who love Jesus on a personal level. I should know because I know many Catholic singles like this. These types of Catholic singles would feel more comfortable worshiping the Lord with evangelicals in an Alpha Course or Billy Graham Crusade, than with their nominal, half-believing congregants.
There is no wonder, then, that many evangelical Catholic singles would have a difficult time finding a date in their own parishes. That’s why internet dating among this group of Catholic singles has really taken off. For example, a substantial portion of eHarmony.com users are Catholic singles.
What are we saying? If you’re a Catholic single, why spend any more time wasting away in a pew or in the Catholic Reading Room waiting for that special soulmate who may never come? There are many evangelical/charasmatic Catholic singles searching online for other Catholic singles just like themselves.
If you are a Catholic single and haven’t tried online dating service like Christian Mingle, you really have little to lose (except a few bucks). Plus, many Catholic singles find it easier to meet singles this way then through other less focused, traditional means. Look at it this way, it’s most likely not gonna happen at Bingo!
So, if you are a Catholic single girl or guy who just isn’t sure about the benefits of using and online dating service, or who’s interested, but just doesn’t know where to begin, we suggest reading online articles about how to start.
Overall, Catholic singles can use the internet to look for other Catholic singles or Christian singles from other denominations who love Jesus as much as they do. You can meet Catholic singles locally, and on any continent including Asia, South America, Europe, Africa and North America. For the typical single Catholic who has a hard time meeting someone nice, we think this option makes a whole lot of sense.
Are you a single Catholic Christian with something to share on dating and Catholic singles?
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Many single Christians interested in using online dating services are confused not only by the sheer number of choices, but also with what makes a good online dating service.
Several days back we wrote an article on how online dating services like eHarmony and PerfectMatch differ from most other online dating services out there. We mentioned that the major difference between these online dating services and all the others is that they do all searching and matching for members.
For those single women and men who want total control over the search and matching process for a date or a mate, there are the more traditional online dating services. Modeled after Match.com, the granddaddy of all internet services. Members of these types of online dating services search for their own dates, and contact those they find compatible.
What makes these kinds of online dating sites so successful is their huge search databases that allow singles to search by a number of variables (age, religion, location, occupation, interests, etc.) for the kind of person they are hoping to meet. While very few online dating services Christians use are exclusively “Christianâ€, this kind of format allows one to meet and date only those of like-minded faith.
The largest of these kinds of online dating service that Christians use in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, South America and Asia include the following:
Top Online Dating Services Christians Use Worldwide:
AmericanSingles United Kingdom (UK), Europe, US, Canada, Australia, Asia,South America
Christian Mingle (Worldwide)
Christian Cafe (Worldwide)
Christian Cupid (Asia, Europe, South America, Africa, Australia, Canada, US, Worldwide)
Free Yahoo Personals (USA, Germany, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
Match.com (USA, Canada, UK and rest of Europe,Asia,South America,Africa,
Meetic.UK
Meetic France
Other Online Dating Sites:
eHarmony.com
PerfectMatch
If you are a Christian single with expereince using online dating services, please help other singles by sharing your thoughts..
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If you had a chance to review eHarmony.com, you would have found that they depart from the traditional dating sites’ way of helping singles meet their match.
Since some singles didn’t like (and some still don’t like) the idea of having to search the internet for a soulmate on their own, in 2000 eHarmony.com became the first to develop a matching system that basically does all the searching for its members. The eHarmony.com process is as follows:
- Christian Singles (or any other single) can sign up for an eHarmony.com Free Personality Profile
- eHarmony.com then contacts those people with compatible matches from other singles who have also taken the questionnaire.
- Finally, eHarmony.com software allows those singles to communicate with each other anonymously until they feel comfortable.
eHarmony is one of the largest matchmaking sites of its kind. They claim that on average, over 90 couples get married everyday due to the fact that they first met on eHarmony.
eHarmony.com Top Competitor
Observing the success of eHarmony.com, several other dating services have imitated their methods. However, the top competitor of eHarmony.com is PerfectMatch.com, which also offers its own free Personality Profile, which is very similar to eHarmony’s.
Each of these dating services has millions of members, due largely to the fact they both spend tens of millions of dollars on media advertising each year. I suppose this is a good thing for us consumers because that means there will be more singles in the system.
PerfectMatch bills itself as “a community of singles who are serious about finding love and a lasting relationship.” What’s a little funny is that in their radio and TV ads, they’ve even adopted the song (This Will Be, by Natalie Cole) eHarmony.com uses in their ads. Talk about copycats!
Overall, while most Christians interested in this kind of online dating service gravitate toward eHarmony.com, not a few use PerfectMatch as well. The latter is also considerably less expensive, which doesn’t hurt its cause.
Since both of these offer free membership trials, our recommendation here is to try out both to see which one feels more comfortable for you.
Finally, if you are a Christian single who has tried either PerfectMatch.com or eHarmony, please help other singles by chiming in with your thoughts.
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Dear Christian singles, my beloved sisters and brothers in Jesus, here at Christian Dating Service PLUS!, we want to take time to thank you for being our special guests.
We take this singles ministry very seriously, and want you to know that we are praying for your unique needs as single Christians. True, we don’t know all your names, but God does, and He honors the heartfelt, faith-filled prayers of His children.
Christian Dating Service PLUS! News
Another reason for writing to you is to keep you updated on what’s going on, or about to be going on, at Christian Dating Service PLUS!:
You Can Now Read Christian Dating Service PLUS! in Your Own Language
Every week thousands of singles from over 100 countries of the world read our singles articles, dating tips and top Christian dating reviews. We’ve had singles from Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, the Middle East and Africa (*please see bottom of page for a full list of countries).
Realizing that not all folks speak English, we’ve placed on Christian Dating Service PLUS! a language translator that allows people to see the site in Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Portugese, Italian, Korean and English. You can find the translator on the lower portion of our sidebar. It’s not perfect (yet), but we hope this makes your reading more enjoyable!
Submit Your Own Singles Articles
The “whole idea” of Christian Dating Service PLUS! is to help singles grow spiritually while they connect with other singles of like-minded faith. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt to meet their mate along the way too!
Sharing topics (dating, sex, marriage,relationships, career, church, singles ministry, etc) related to the single Christian life experience is one way of connecting with others.
Therefore, if you are a single Christian of any sort, a Christian singles group or church group leader, pastor, college and career leader, a member of a college campus ministry, singles counselor or singles events coordinator, please consider helping other singles by submitting an article to this site.
Anyone who submits a singles related piece will be credited as the author (if they wish), and if they have a ministry or website, we will link back to you, which will bring more traffic and attention to your site, singles group, ministry or church.
In the very near future, writers will be able to log-in to Christian Dating Service PLUS! directly via their own password and post articles directly to the site. For now, articles may be submitted here.
Publicize Your Christian Singles Group, Coffehouse or Church Ministry
As mentioned previously, Christian Dating Service PLUS is in the process of making a directory of all known Christian singles groups, churches, Christian fellowships, Christian social networks, college ministries, para-church groups, singles support groups, small groups, podcasts and coffeehouses. Whatever country you live in, let us help you get the word out on your local singles outreach and events by placing your information on our website.
Finally, please pray for all the single people of the world, many of whom are facing dangerous and lonely times in war. Whether we be college students, single parents, divorced, widowed, 30 something, 40 something, 50 something or single seniors, we all need prayer. So. let’s reach out in believing faith that Jesus will help us in our time of need.
Top Online Dating Services Christians Use Worldwide:
Christian Cupid-Asia, South America, UK,US, Africa, Australia, Europe, Russia,Canada
Chat on Meetic UK: Chat with singles in your area 
Rencontres avec Meetic France 
AmericanSingles
Christian Cafe
Christian Mingle
EHarmony
PerfectMatch-PerferctMatch.com
SingleC-Single Christian Network
Yahoo Personals
*Pray for all single Christians in the churches, college campuses, para-church groups, Christian singles groups, fellowships, or church groups in these countries:
Azerbaidjan,Algeria,Angola,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh,
Belgium,Bermuda,Bulgaria,Bolivia,Bosnia-Herzegovina,Brazil,Brunei Darussalam,Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Chile,China,Colombia,Congo,Costa Rica,
Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark,
Dominican Republic,Egypt,El Salavador,Estonia,Ethiopia,European Union,Finland,France,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Guinea Bissau,Great Britain,Greece,Greenland,Guam,Guyana,Guatemala,Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,Iceland,India,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Italy, Ireland,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,Lebanon,Libya,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macau,Malawi,Malaysia,Mali,
Malta,Maldives,Mauritius,Mexico,Moldova,Mongolia,Monaco,Morocco,
Myanmar,Namibia,Nigeria,Norway,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,Papua New Guinea, New Zealand,Nicaragua,Norway,Pakistan,Panama,Paraguay,
Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russian Federation, Saint Lucia,Saudi Arabia,Scotland,Senegal,Singapore,Slovak Republic,Slovenia,South Africa,
South Korea,Spain,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tanzania,Taiwan,Thailand,
Trinidad and Tobago,Togo,Turkey,Uganda,UK,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,
United States,Uzbekistan,Venezuela,Vietnam,Wales,Yemen,Zimbabwe
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Many Christian singles complain how hard it is find a date in their own local area. Oftentimes, the churches they attend either have no Christian singles group, or the available single people in their respective churches are not what we would call “keepers” (I thought I just heard a few amens out there!).
In fact, we recently found out through our own survey that this dearth of good single catches locally is one of the reasons why Christians would consider dating unbelievers. Yes, finding a Christian date in your area is not as easy as it seems. However, there is plenty of hope and opportunity. Our dating advice is to take a three pronged approach toward this goal.
Practical Steps Toward Finding a Date Locally
Pray While Taking Proactive Steps Toward Your Goal
What do we mean by that? Matthew 7:7,8 tells us to ask and we shall receive; seek and we will find; knock and the door will open. Now I know some of you are frustrated with prayer because you haven’t seen God move yet. No one ever promised waiting on God was going to be easy.
Yes, Jesus wants us to pray expectantly, but the above verses suggest He also wants us to take faith filled steps toward the object of our prayers. Often that means stepping out of our comfort zones by trying something new. If asking alone is not working, then you need to seek. If asking and seeking is still not working, then you may need to knock. Pray about what that may mean for you as you think about finding a date in your local area.
Join A Christian Singles Group
Besides fellowshipping with other singles, there are many benefits to joining a local Christian singles group. Don’t sweat it if your church doesn’t have such a group. Simply do a Google search for a Christian singles church group in your immediate area, and chances are you will come up with something nearby.
As a sidebar, one of the main reasons we started Christian Dating Service PLUS! was to fill a need by listing all known single Christian groups worldwide. And we are steadily doing that. We understand single Christians (whether they be college age singles, divorced, single parent moms or dads, or never married single adults) have a yearning not only to develop godly romantic relationships, but also to connect locally with other singles who share their beliefs.
Okay, I’m done plugging our site, so do check out a singles group if you are not already connected to one. You won’t be sorry, and you never know who God is preparing you to meet.
Try Online Christian Dating Services
In a previous dating article, we discussed the benefits of seeking a soulmate online. All of the dating services we review on this site, like Christian Cafe or Christian Mingle
offer free trial memberships with no obligation. They also allow you to search their large databases to find available dates in your local area.
Our suggestion is to read up on what makes a good online Christian dating site, then signup for free at a couple of those to try them out. If you are unsure how to find a date using online personals, our dating tips category offers practical help.
If you are a single Christian with further tips on how to find a date in your local geographical area, please help others by sharing your thoughts.
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