ChristianCafe.com - Christian Cafe Dating Service
ChristianCafe.com is a dating site based on attracting people of the Christian faith into a community where they can meet up with one another and enjoy both platonic and romantic fellowship in a friendly setting. The free trial available to nonmembers has almost all of the full features from the site, allowing you to make an informed decision about whether or not you want to join the ChristianCafe community. A free trial for the website lasts for seven days, plus three more if you upload a photo. You can also generate more time for a free account by referring a friend to the site – you get five days for each referred friend.
Registering on the site takes you through a standard round of multiple choice questions that are quite in depth, ranging from inquiries as to your physical appearance, Christian denomination, and personal habits. The second section of registration is a short answer section covering the more intimate details of one's life: schooling, ideal first date setting, why your last relationship ended, etc.
After registering you are sent your username and password via email, and once logged in, you have five (six if you're a paid member) ways to search for other members. You can look via the site's automatic ‘quickmatch', a detailed search broken down by the profile categories, who's currently online, who's new to the site, a specific member, or, if you're a paid member, you can join the ChristianCafe chat and meet up with people in there.
After a search query has loaded, the site allows you to organize the results by how closely someone matches your search specifications, whether or not they have a photo, their user name, gender, age, region, location, the type of relationship they're looking for, and whether or not you've viewed their profile before. If you have looked at a certain member before, the last time you viewed their profile will be available in the ‘Viewed' column. Also, any member who has a photo will have a thumbnail automatically generated for you whenever you hover over their image in the search window. Searches can be saved so that you don't have to put in the information every single time you want to refresh the results.
As far as the profiles are concerned, all the information made available by the user when they initially register for the site is viewable on their profile, even to free members. Each user can upload three photos and caption each of them. The site has a built in photo editor for those without access to more advanced tools on their PC, allowing them to make changes to their picture before making it available on the site. All photos are subject to the approval of the ChristianCafe.com administrators, and they do have a few rules regarding what is allowed and what is not: no swimsuit images, and nothing overtly sexual. All profiles are also expected to follow the theme of the site and not have any sexual connotation. Messages to members are also expected to follow these guidelines.
Messages from trial members are also screened for contact information; only paid members are allowed to trade email addresses, screen names, etc. Paid members, in addition to access to the previously mentioned chat area, are able to use the more advanced features of the proprietary quick message software used on ChristianCafe.com. While trial members are able to send emails and QMs as they please, only paid members are able to get both audio and video with any QM.
ChristianCafe.com also boasts a number of resources for Christian singles outside just meeting other likeminded people; it features a ‘Prayer' section for prayer requests and inspiration, and also has a section devoted to finding activities that you can enjoy as a Christian, single or not: cruises, safaris, counseling, and more.
Overall ChristianCafe.com has a gigantic user database and many features for both paid and non-paid members. Regardless of denomination or church related activity, any Christian who is looking for love should give ChristianCafe.com a go.
