BigChurch.com - Big Church Christian Dating Service
BigChurch.com is one of the most popular and fast growing dating sites that caters specifically to people of faith, and who wish to meet someone who shares their interest and commitment to religion.
However unlike many other leading secular competitors, this site offers quality and quantity when it comes to services and features.
With almost half a million members, and the opportunity to join to look for both friendship and romance, the site has no shortage of visitors and offers a fabulous package, which is mindful at all times of respecting the members faith and religion. Not just a dating site, BigChurch.com offers a non judgmental virtual community, with as much focus on friendship as on love.
Security and anonymity are very important features on this site, offering members the chance to keep certain aspects of their profile hidden from public users, until you decide to allow members to view it. Also sending profiles is anonymous unless you choose to make your identity known to the other users.
The site is attractive, and displays information in a way that is easy to understand, and navigate. All links are clearly labelled as are statistics, including the amount of people who have logged on that day, the number of new photos added in a week, and the growing number of new members who are registering.
Before signing up you can read a few of the many testimonials from members who have found love via the website, as well as taking the free site tour and performing a quick search in order to see the type of members the site boasts.
BigChurch offers a free membership, with no time expiration, which gives limited use of the site and its features. There is the option to upgrade at any point during the membership, on a month by month basis if you wish, which offers the perks of being a premium member with the flexibility of not making a long term commitment to the site.
Registration is not very time consuming although does require some effort on your part to describe yourself and the type of person you are, as well as the type of match you are seeking. Although some sections do not require completing at time of registration, it is compulsory to complete the sections regarding your faith and what it means to you. Once you have created your account you can then upload photographs.
You may begin to search as soon as you have signed up, and as a free member are entitled to performing both quick and basic searches. Quick searches allow you to display members who are online, those new to the site, those with photos only etc. Basic searches allow you to narrow down potential matches somewhat, specifying an age range, gender and a localized search range. The downside to being a free member is that you will not be able to view many entire profiles, unless a premium member has paid an additional fee to allow guest members to view their profile, or a very popular profile has gained viewing privileges which allow all members to view them.
Premium members have the added bonus of performing advanced searches, which allow them to specify a number of preferences, including body type, ethnicity, their beliefs and faith, and whether they want children or not, amongst a number of other criteria.
Once a search query has loaded, profiles are displayed as a list which allows you to choose whose personal advertisement you wish to view in its entirety. For free members, there is a logo next to each member whose profile you may view, which makes it easier for you. Every displayed match also has a last log in date, which is a really nice feature of this site, so you don't aimlessly contact members who are not regular users of the site.
The contact options on BigChurch.com are great, allowing free members the option to reply to email messages from premium members, without having to pay to upgrade in order to read them. All premium members can contact any other member, free or otherwise, and know that they will get responses without free members having to pay to reply.
The site offers a number of features for its premium members including message boards, forums, an online magazine with member submitted articles, dating and safety tips, religion relevant topics and articles, and group chat rooms.
BigChurch.com has a real sense of community spirit, and is a welcoming and busy dating site. Because of the audience the site caters to, there is no worry about inappropriate language or subjects as all members deem their faith to be important.
