Many Christian singles seeking a dating relationship are questioning whether they should try online Christian dating services. Everyday thousands of Christians are making the choice to seek that dating relationship through the internet. Here are the top reasons they give for doing so:
1. Online Dating Relationships Work
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, it is estimated that two million married Internet users met their spouses online. In 2005 alone, eHarmony estimated that 16,500 people got married through using their services
2. Have You Checked Out My Church?
Connecting with other Christian singles in church is not as easy as it seems. Excluding the one or two whackos they seem to attract at church, many Christian singles relay that there are very few available dating relationship prospects among their everyday contacts.
3. Finding a Dating Relationship Via the Web is Less Expensive
There is a cost, on average between 15 and 40 USD per month. However, when you compare this with what one pays for just one night out in hopes of attaining that dating relationship, the costs pale.
4. It’s Easier to Find Someone of the Same Faith and Background
This is one of the most popular reasons Christians give for seeking a dating relationship in this way. Using the large search databases of web based dating sites, a single person can narrow in on their target: Finding a relationship for dating and possible marriage with a true believer in Christ.
5. Single Parents Find it a Convenient Time-Saver
Christian single parents have anything but time on their hands. Sure, single parents with kids in the home are interested in a dating relationship, but much of their time goes toward working and/or worrying how they will survive if their next child support payments don’t come. So, when there is time to breathe, single parents in search of a relationship for dating and romance find single parent dating services a great time saver.
6. You Can Get a Date From Your Local Area
We know some singles are into long distance dating relationships. My one friend has travelled half way around the globe to meet his date. However, other singles are not cool with this type of dating relationship. For them, online matchmaking sites allow them to check off this variable in their search, and find a Christian date locally
7. A Fun Way to Get To Know Someone Before Meeting
Most dating sites have free Christian Chatrooms where you can get to know a dating relationship possibility through online chats, IMs, webcams or email before you actually meet in person. It’s not only fun, but also allows for real emotional sharing, which is the foundation of any serious and good Christian dating relationship. Just be sure you put these practical online safety dating tips into practice.
Well, these are just some of the reasons our readers have given for looking for a dating relationship online. Are you are Christian single who’s found a dating relationship through the web? Feel free to share your relationship experiences.
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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.
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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
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eHarmony.com
PerfectMatch
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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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Online European dating popularity is definitely growing, as people throughout Europe have become more familiar with a variety of dating services, like ChristianMingle
and the different benefits they may offer singles seeking a soulmate online.
Online Dating in Europe, Asia and U.S.
European dating service name recognition has come largely through word of mouth, viral marketing, Christian singles groups, the hundreds of different online dating sites and the massive media campaigns of services like:
Meetic UK 
ChristianMingle.com
Christian Cafe
Christian Cupid- Asia, South America, UK, Africa, Australia, Europe, Russia
eHarmony
Perfectmatch
FREE Yahoo Personals
In the U.S. at least, it seems we can’t get through an evening of watching TV or listening to the radio without getting an online dating service personals ad. All this marketing must be working because Pew Internet Research reports that over 37% of all singles (Christian singles included) looking for a date, and 11% of all web surfers, have clicked onto online dating sites.
Presently, 15% of USA adults (that’s over 30 million people) claim they know someone who is either married or in a long term dating relationship on account of using an online dating service.
In Europe and Asia, online dating is currently growing at an even faster rate than in the US. A little more than five years ago, online dating in such countries as the Netherlands, the UK, France, Italy, Japan, China, Korea Russia and Germany was relatively unknown. Today, European dating singles have definitely fallen in love with online dating and matchmaking services. According to Meetic, the leading Europe dating service, multiple thousands of European single people (including Christian singles) are signing up daily for their free trial memberships.
Overall, whatever European dating site, you choose to use, make sure you understand what each online dating site has to offer. Since most offer risk free trial memberships, we recommend checking out a number of dating sites in order to compare the positives and negatives.
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Millions of Christian singles use many different kinds of online dating sites in their search for that special soulmate. The simple reason for this is that there are over 1000 different dating services worldwide.
Therefore, it’s not only important for single Christians to be up to snuff in knowing what makes up a good or reputable online dating site, but also to be educated on what kinds of online dating sites are out there.
Traditional Online Dating Sites
These kind of online dating sites were the first of their kind and came with the advent of the commercial internet in the mid 90’s. Match.com is the oldest and largest of this dating genre, which also includes others like AmericanSingles, Yahoo Personals and PerfectMatch.
Traditional online dating sites do not cater to one specific singles demographic, but advertises with everyone in mind. While these online dating sites do not purport to be “Christian dating services”, many Christians do use them because the large search databases makes it easier to find a Christian mate locally.
Online Niche Dating Sites
As the dating market began getting saturated with traditional online dating sites, online niche dating sites began appearing on the web. An online niche dating site is a site that caters to specific characteristics, beliefs, interests or hobbies of particular singles. For example, say you love animals and want to date other singles who do too. No problem! Just go to DateMYPet.com, and they’ll set you up.
Online dating sites that largely market to Christian singles would include among others: EHarmony, Christian Cafe, Christian Mingle and SingleC-Single Christian Network.
Online Matchmaker Dating Sites
These dating sites are not pure online dating sites in the normal usage that we are familar with, but use the internet to market their matchmaker services. In fact, they have been around for decades before internet dating became in vogue.
What these services offer is one on one help from a professional matchmaker, who interviews and matches clients with the kind of love match they are looking to meet. An example of these kind of services you find online is Great Expectactions. Just know that if you decide to use a matchmaker dating site, you will pay a handsome fee for their services. Is it worth it? I don’t think so, but only you can tell.
Social Networks
If you’ve heard of MySpace, then you are dealing with a social network. They are not primarily online dating sites, but you can definitely meet other singles on them. There are several Christian social networks online that you may be interested in checking out.
Overall, this article was a simple overview of the kinds of online dating sites Christians use. If you are a Christian single interested in looking for a mate online, we recommend diversifying your efforts by comparing several dating services. Most of these services are either free or offer some form of free trial memberships.
Finally, the issue is not whether you can meet other Christians on these online dating sites, but which one you feel best suits your needs and beliefs as a follower of Jesus.
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