With well over 100,000 members at any one time, Christian Café has the look and feel of an irresistibly cozy little coffee cafe where you can enjoy a virtual date or meet someone new on a very personable level. This coffee café theme pervades the entire site. Christian Cafe is as easy to use as it is cute with well-designed navigation, search and profiles. The customer service does not disappoint in any way other than speed, but it is understandable that it can take a bit of time given the huge number of members. Well over 1 million Christian singles have used Christian Café since it began in 1999 after founder Sam Moorcroft became enamored with the idea of creating the largest dating service for single Christians. He and his brother, Philip, were inspired by studying Christian.MatchMaker.com and mentored by Clark Sloan, the guy who started A Singles Christian Network back in 1991 before the end of A Singles Christian Network database in May of 2009.
You can enjoy a whole host of cool features that make Christian Cafe a vibrant online Christian singles community:
• Post a prayer request in the prayer message boards
• Save your new online friends to your friends list and know instantly if they are logged in.
• You can even meet up in person with singles you found at Christian Cafe, clad in safari garb for African safari tours for Christian singles, or take other vacations for single Christians.
• The Chat Rooms are bustling with singles (Paid members only)
• Send a quick "WINK" to someone you want to meet or flirt with using the "send-wink" dating tool.
Membership Costs
Free Trial Membership (full access to everything except chat room, and voice and video IM)
The Paid membership plans are alacarte and add to the intimate coffee cafe feel with full access to everything on the site:
2 weeks = $29.95
1 month = $34.95
3 months X $16.64 per month = $49.95
6 months X $13.34 per month = $79.95
12 months X 9.99 per month = $109.95 (The best bargain, which represents a 71% discount to the 1 month price.) Considering the fact that it may take a year to find your soul-mate we recommend this 12 month plan. Or just start out with 3 months and then upgrade to 1 year.
Get more free trial time:
The 7-day FREE trial membership can be extended to 10 days when you upload your photo to your dating profile. With your free trial you cannot use the chat features or the voice & video functions of instant messaging, but do get to look around and get a feel for the Christian Cafe features and search to see if anyone in your area meets your idea of a good dating or marriage prospect.
Don't be overwhelmed by the extensive profile creation process. Just complete your profile enough to get started. You can always come back later after thinking more about it and reading what others have written in their profiles. Or read the online profile optimization tips. Or let ProfileHelper tool improve your profile to make it more effective in attracting others.
Searching is Easy and Effective:
Christian Cafe has one of the best search systems we've seen. There are two search modes, QuickMatch, or detailed searching based on your own custom search parameters.
Although sometimes slow due to heavy use, especially if you load the search up with many search requirements, it is best to search Christian Café based on your three or four most important requirements in a mate or date. Be prepared to prioritize the search results by requesting your criteria in order of importance. For example: prioritizing your search by location first, then type of relationship desired, then age, then denomination, then key interests, should give you quite a good list of singles to contact, depending on how far you are willing to travel to meet other single Christians.
And once the Christian Café search system narrows the results down to the most relevant 400 to 500 profiles that most closely match what you are seeking in other Christian singles; get started contacting them one by one with a specific response that is unique to each individual’s profile you’ve read. It is tacky to send out a canned response that has no reference to the content presented in an individual’s profile.
Also, don’t start contacting other singles until you have completed your own dating profile. You wouldn’t want them to visit your incomplete profile before contacting you, and then decide not to bother. An incomplete profile can be a real turn-off. It shows a lack of interest, or worse yet, laziness. So put in the effort to polish up and complete your profile. Be sure to add recent photo(s). You will reap the rewards!
To save time, you can let the QuickMatch tool quickly match you up based on things in common like kind of relationship desired, location, denomination, age, etc.; or take the slower more detailed approach and search based on these specific criteria:
Gender
Age Range
Location by State/Province/City
Region
Marital status
Have children?
Children at home (number)
Want children?
Height
Weight
Hair - color
Hair - length
Ethnicity
Looks (Attractive, Average, Etc.)
Christian faith
Church involvement
Denomination: (Adventist, Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Lutherin, Mennonite, Messianic, Mormon, Nazarine, Presbyterian, Quaker, Salvation Army, Etc.)
Intellect
Education
Income Level
Occupation
Do you smoke?
Do you drink?
Type of relationship you are seeking:
• Just Curious
• Unsure
• Penpals
• Casual Dating
• Open to Possibilities
• Serious Relationship
• Marriage Minded
• Wherever God Leads
=> HELPFUL HINT: don't forget that you can save up to 5 searches for later viewing…it is kind of like book-marking or saving web pages to your favorites list in a web browser.
=> HELPFUL HINT: in addition to detailed searches, don't forget that you can also check the new members list, or send an Instant Message to anyone “Who's Online” to meet other single Christians.
Excellent Safety and Security Features:
• Articles on how to avoid getting scammed, dating safety, and how to use Christian Cafe safely.
• Can easily report trouble to customer service and get results
• Can also block unwanted members from seeing your profile or contacting you
• Secure, Internal, Anonymous Email Box: concealing your real, external email address completely
• Can change your username at anytime (DO NOT USE YOUR REAL NAME, but if you do, change it easily to a fake-name or online nickname.)
• Can hide your location, state, province or city form being shown when searching your profile
• Can turn off the feature that shows if you have viewed others, just in case you are shy or a very private person
• Also the excellent FAQ, help pages, articles and customer service cannot go unmentioned and applauded!
This fun and warm Christian singles community offers you additional membership credit for:
• Uploading your photo to your profile for an extra 3 days added to your 7-day Free Trial Membership. (good to encourage singles to improve their profile and make it more appealing, it also improves the overall quality of the Christian Cafe dating site.)
• Recommend your single Christian friends and a get additional 5 days membership time when they pay for membership.
Do you know someone who needs to get married or at least make some new single Christian friends? Buy them a gift that keeps on giving, membership at Christian Cafe. You can stay anonymous.
One other thing we like, is the fact that the profile search system provides enough but not too much in terms of single Christians to choose from based on whatever criteria you enter, using QuickMatch or detailed mode. With over 100,000 members imagine having to wade through thousands upon thousands of profiles without the dating service system first narrowing down the search results to less than five hundred of the very best matches.
In addition to ChristianCafe.com RealCafes.com Inc. also owns JewishCafe.com and other café style interactive websites.
F.Y.I. here’s what Danny our Webmaster has to say about Christian Café:
“ ChristianCafe® is one of the largest Christian owned and operated dating services. The founder/owner and president, Sam Moorcroft, is constantly striving to fine-tune and innovate new features. Sam is a man of good Christian character and I have a great deal of respect for him, after speaking on the telephone with him for several hours and communicating a great deal via e-mail. One of Sam’s innovative ideas that I really like is the fact that people can earn extra free trial membership time by referring others to become members, or even for reporting duplicate personal ads to the webmaster.
“ChristianCafe also has no limit on e-mailing others through the internal anonymous e-mail system, however, only paying members can exchange actual personal e-mail addresses with one another, which is more than fair considering the cost of programming and maintaining the huge dating database system. Both paying and non-paying-free-trial members can browse or search the detailed, photo personals by gender, age, geographical location and other factors. I find that during peak times the system serves up faster searches by limiting the number of search variables to only one to three of the most important factors you are looking for, like age, gender and location or education.“
“It changes from time to time, but often only paying members get to chat in the chat room. Since most serious relationships tend to begin via the personal ads; not getting to chat until you pay is not all that detrimental to finding a Christian soul mate.“
“One problem I’ve found from time to time is the number of inactive members: so be sure to check the date on a particular profile that interests you. Sometimes Sam runs a promo to invite inactive members back to ChristianCafe for an extra extension to their original free trial membership. The cost of ChristianCafe membership is about 25% higher than our first recommendation, A Singles Christian Network™, for roughly the same features and services.“
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