If you have a ChristianCafe.com experience you would like to share with other members, please write to us! If you have a photo you would like to share with us, we'll try to post it as well. We receive a lot of testimonials and try to update this page as often as we can, but are not always able to keep up with the volume. We certainly appreciate hearing from you. It makes our job all the more worthwhile :)
Dear ChristianCafe.com, here is another testimonial to cheer you! What do you do when you think you've tried everything and are still single? You try the Internet. I was one of those skeptical profiles but, I thought, what did I have to lose.
After almost giving up, I got a message from a guy that looked promising - tall, dark and handsome.
The short answer questions are a great way to see who your potential mate really is, and his answers showed that he was from the same church background as me, and he had immigrated from the same country as my parents. What more could I ask for!
3 months later we met. 6 months later we were engaged, and 6 months after that we were married.
We thank you for the service and we thank God for using this means to bring us together.
Sincerely,
Diana-farmgirl519 {Ontario} & Arie-ontarie879 {Ontario} June 2006
Diana and Arie Married in Canada.
With greetings and many thanks unto the Lord our Saviour and ChristianCafe.com we are pleased to say that after many conversations, loooooong phone calls, crossing two oceans, much praying and a whirlwind romance, we would like to share our story and post a picture of our wedding day that means so much to us. As to how it all came about, it began on this website.
It truly seems like eons ago since the two of us met on ChristianCafe.com, and we both cannot seem to see any other possible way that we could have met! I stumbled across the Cafe by receiving an email invitation. I registered and had my relationship setting set as "Just Curious". My husband was seeking a life long partner and he came across the Cafe by browsing the Internet.
I met a few interesting people, but made no connections that really hit home. My situation was that I was not only curious to meet someone that was right for me, but someone who was right for my daughter Dana, who had just turned two at the time.
Needless to say, when God's time was right, which it was, He led me to meet a man and that was the end of my waiting, wondering, hoping and praying. I was online one day and decided to browse through profiles of members that had their online status on and to whom I could send a Quick Message. I came across a profile of someone that I thought to be interesting and sent a message saying, "hello!" His name was Nathan and it turned out that he lived in Canada, but through further conversation I found out that his family originated in my native land, South Africa, and most of them still live there. This was astonishing to both of us seeing that neither of us knew each other's background. Nevertheless, the fate, revelation and wonderful conversations continued.
It also turned out that a very good friend of my husband had told him just before meeting me, that the Lord would send him a wife from his parents' native land, South Africa!
Our friendship steadily grew and blossomed into a well grounded love, with everything a true relationship ought to have such as respect, trust, companionship and much enjoyment of each other's correspondence; more clarity of God's blessing of our wanting to be together shone through. As well, about a month after talking over the phone, we discovered that my mother knew his uncle very well before he had immigrated to Canada over 20 years ago! In addition, before ever meeting, my husband was already in the process of organizing a trip to South Africa to visit his family! Needless to say, it then became a visit where he would meet my daughter and me as well!
The trip was short, but wonderful, and we became engaged, with the blessing of both our families, and the trip confirmed all that we had hoped, that we loved each other. Not only that, but my daughter was even more crazy about Nathan and loved him even more having spent hours with him playing tag on the beach! With that said, our wedding date was set for January 06, 2006 at the height of our summer and holiday season in South Africa. However, the fate did not stop there: after booking the hall, organizing the wedding cake and selecting the church, we later found out the church that we chose to get married in, in Cape Town, was the church that my husband's father's family had attended while residing in South Africa.
Furthermore, it was the same church where my husband's father chose to make his public confession to serve and follow Jesus Christ, and the church that a relative of mine was pastor of!
Needless to say, everything was perfect and we were married in beautiful, sunny South Africa with all of our combined families in attendance.
We would like to once again, give thanks unto the Lord for His answering prayer and giving us this great opportunity to be so blessed by each other. We are also grateful to ChristianCafe.com for the great system and network that you have set up to help seeking people continue to find that right and special Someone.
Thank you, God bless you all.
Ingor-swit306 {South Africa} & Nathan-shalom569 {Ontario, Canada} (& Little Dana too!) June 2006
Ingor (South Africa) and Nathan (Ontario) Married January 2006, and Little Dana.
ChristianCafe.com wedding! We just wanted to let you know about a marriage that began on your website!
My husband and I met on ChristianCafe.com in March 2004, when he first wrote to me. We got engaged on August 19, 2005 and were just married on May 20th of this year!
We both would like to thank you for this website and for bringing us together. Please feel free to pass our story along to your other members as inspiration and encouragement that Internet dating really can work - and believe me, no one was a bigger skeptic or more reluctant to try the whole web-dating thing than me.
My husband removed his profile from your website when we became exclusive. I've kept mine open with the plan to one day write this email and tell you about our happy news! For obvious reasons now, though, I'd like to cancel my membership and permanently remove my profile from your site.
Thank you again for helping us to find joy like neither of us has ever known! Here's a picture from our wedding.
Sincerely,
Suzi-creativetoo210 {California} June 2006
Suzi Married May 2006.
ChristianCafe.com did it for us too! I just want to testify that I got my wife from this site. We were married on 22 March 2006 and we are happy.
Molifi-malivos480 {South Africa} June 2006
Hello Friends! I have something to tell you. Last November I met Daisy on your web site and this June 10 we will be married.
Please tell all your members that they can find romance on your web site, but they have to be open to God's leading.
It has taken a year from our first meeting for us to get the wedding put together, but praise God, He has done it.
Just a word of thanks to all the Staff: we both love you and would recommend you to any Christian looking for God's person in their life.
With all my love in Christ,
Samuel-burnedbylove413 {Missouri} June 2006
[Editor: Please click to see June 2007 (page 1) testimonials, Daisy and Samuel approaching their first wedding anniversary.]
Wonderful site. Dear ChristianCafe.com, In April 2005 I met a wonderful Christian man on your site that I have been seeing for over a year. We have been having the time of our lives.
Your site prompts you for great information that allows you to get a good idea of the fellow before you even make contact. By the time you have corresponded for a while, you have really gotten to know a lot, all without meeting and getting "hooked" by the physical things (looks and touches).
Your website allowed searches that really narrowed down the search, so I was only looking at people that I might be compatible with. The questions were great because they caused me to really examine my own personality to know what I really wanted.
I tried other websites, but yours is by far the best. I recommend ChristianCafe.com every chance I get.
Trisha [No username given] June 2006
