ChurchFriends.com - Church Friends Dating Site
ChurchFriends.com is a dating website and social network for people of multiple faiths, even though the site is primarily targeted at and populated by Christians. Registration is quick and easy, consisting of only two pages of information that you need to fill out. The forms are relatively standard – you're asked your age, ethnicity, and some physical descriptors, as well as the things that you're interested in. Something worth nothing about ChurchFriends.com is that it is a gay-friendly site; something not standard among most faith-based sites. On the second page you fill out the more detailed information, such as your habits (i.e. smoking & drinking), your education, occupation, religious views, as well as two essay questions: about yourself and about your match. Of course, there's a photo upload section, although a photo isn't required before you complete your initial profile.
Once you've completed these two pages, you're registered with the site. After you've done that, there are a multitude of options available. You can complete the rest of the profile options: what languages you speak, the importance of location of your matches, your hobbies and interests, questions for potential matches, keywords that describe you, your dislikes, and even a space to upload a public video (from YouTube or some similar site). In addition to that, you can verify your photo and age by uploading a driver's license, or just your photo by taking a picture of yourself holding up a sign with your username and the website's name. You can even verify your occupation by faxing or scanning a business card with your name on it, or a letterhead from your company.
With a guest account, you can go through any of these verifications for your profile, as well as comment on profiles and forums, participate in any chat initiated by a ‘gold' member, send free winks, reply to emails, search and view profiles, and upload up to 10 photos. A guest account isn't automatically deleted from the site after any point in time – all ads placed on ChurchFriends.com are there for the lifetime of the site.
Gold members have a variety of options available to them as well – they can initiate emails and chats, they have advanced search abilities, as well as priority listing in all searches performed on the site. They can also see who is interested in them and who's viewed their profile. New members who match their desires are automatically shown to them, and they have the ability to hide any ‘undesirable results' from all of their future searches. Lastly, ChurchFriends.com provides daily news as well as dating advice to all Gold members.
As previously mentioned, advanced searches and keyword searches are limited to Gold members, but all members can use the basic search, which lets you search for matches based on distance from yourself, age, and gender. You can also search based on username. With each search, you can view as many profiles as you'd like in your results page, and Gold members also have access to some advanced results filters that guests don't: profiles with photos, as well as viewing profiles as a photo gallery. Gold members also have a quick review option available to them for profile glancing.
All in all ChurchFriends.com is a diverse and robust site. The options available to free members ensure that anyone can find someone on the website, whether they're looking for friendship, casual encounters, or even marriage. The openness of the site for people of different backgrounds and preferences to try to find love through the network is a great boon to the diversity of the network. Regardless of faith or orientation, ChurchFriends.com has someone for you.
