Christian Connection Avis 

Used to be a good site until they decided to restrict which age groups a member would even be allowed to view. This was seemingly done by surreptitiously imposing a DEFAULT 10-year age differential making it impossible to view profiles outside of these strict limits unless the profile owner goes into the workings of the site in order to adjust this restriction for their own profile. The result is that, for the average person, it will be impossible to EVEN VIEW someone who is - say - 10 year and 1 day younger than yourself! In apparent breach of extant equality legislation - never mind the renowned loving and inclusive nature of Christianity - the people behind the CC website seem quite committed to the exclusionary nature of this policy and even admit that it is specifically designed to discriminate against older men viewing younger females. That is, they openly seek to exclude people based on the legally protected characteristics of age and gender. Just wish someone would instigate appropriate legal action against these bigots! Next best thing, avoid this site unless you share their bizarre hang-ups and (not-very-Christian) judgemental control-issues in relation to age-gap relationships.

The interesting discussion boards that used to be a feature of the site also seem to have disappeared.

It’s great to have a Christian site to look for someone on. The questions they suggest as openers are helpful. Like all sites (I expect, although don’t have personal experience of), you get those who don’t use it well, and you get out what you put in. It has been a long and at times frustrating and hard slog, but I would still recommend it. 9 years and a few bumpy twists and turns and I have finally(!) found the man of my dreams. God doesn’t work how I think He will, but He always does it better than I could. Thankful for God, and for this site.

I always was doubtful about dating sites. They seemed for those who were “desperate” but I felt peace about it my heart to join Christian Connection. And wow! It was the best experience! It’s an organisation who’s values are for people to meet someone. Plus God can use many channels and this was one for me!

Difficult to find active profiles
Most of the profiles are inactive, in that the person hasn't logged in for months.
Also, filtering by age isn't fine-grained enough for me.

Edit: I should also point out something to their credit. Later on, when a user (whom I did not know) broke the Terms by tracking down the contact details of someone I know and asking them about me, ChristianConnection handled this appropriately. I was very appreciative.

What a disappointment. I created an account and of course, could not use the filters until I paid for a full membership. Up to that point all I was seeing were profiles of men who were in a different province. I paid my membership and filtered on distance and still only got the dozen or so members from the neighbouring province that I was able to see before paying for a membership. I live in a major city and all I get are profiles of members who live hours away? What's the point?

Nice to meet someone online who has shared similar experiences and has a real passion to take on life and try things. Didn't find this person much in person when meeting people in the everyday Christian circles I had been apart of, so refreshing.

Regarding the Upper and Lower Age Gaps.

If I am paying for a service, I believe I should be given the full autonomy to choose what I want. In your age gaps, you have not given me full control of what age I want to see but rather given me a few age ranges for people to choose from.

If I am paying for it then I believe I should be allowed to choose what age group I want rather than you forcing me to choose from your set age groups or gaps.

I am 52 and I do not want to view profiles of people who are older than me but there is no option given for me to be able to make this happen.

I think Christian connection needs to review this age gap issue and give subscribers more flexibility.

For example, a subscriber may want to ONLY view people who are 1 or 2 years older than them but unfortunately there is no way to make this happen.

Thank you
Ray132

Christian Connection is the best datting site because they are purely honest comparing with others. Anyone who are in the search of relationship I obviously suggest to use Christian Connection.

I find this service honest and aboveboard and very transparent

I would recommend them

I paid for a full membership subscription on the site. I've had bad experiences with online dating sites with stalkers and harassers in the past, so used a pseudonym name. That usually is not a problem with online profiles as they are visible all over the world and not everybody wants to be identified by gossip-mongering neighbours or locals. I also look a lot younger than I am and have a young attitude to life, get along with men who are much younger than me, and would like to meet someone within that age range. (Unfortunately, there is a fixed search range on the site.) So put a younger age in my profile to enable a wider search. I am also moving interstate soon and would like to meet someone online in the new area to meet up with when I move, so put my new location into my profile. Usually not a problem with other sites.
But the next day I received an email from CC saying I'd been "flagged by their security" and they demanded that I send a copy of my licence or passport with photo ID.
So, CC had all my bank card and account details. Now they wanted my photo ID.
No prizes for guessing what those two factors usually lead to.
Stay away from it. Their attitude is like the CIA or gestapo. Anybody can set up a dating website. You can buy them on ebay for $100. Nobody has the right to demand your photo ID, especially an anonymous nobody running a franchise of dating sites.
Plus, the same nobodies can collect all members' personal info and sell or pass it on to others to locate you.

UPDATE TO REPLY:
I don't see the logic to CC's reply "that the reason for the request is to protect your account and your personal information from potential fraud or theft."
How is demanding MY photo ID, after getting my bank details, going to do that? No logic there at all.
I have asked CC for their policy regarding demanding photo ID and they still haven't sent it to me.
They have since told me that a number of accounts with different names were created from the same device, which is a downright lie.
I created ONE initial account using a pseudonym and VPN to take a look at the site to decide if I wanted to join. That was an unpaid account. The VPN caused problems as CC automatically logged me into NZ and sent matches from that country, even though I continually changed the country home page. That's why I opened a separate account with a new pseudonym and email, which CC obviously treats people as criminals for and they assume they can invade people's privacy for doing something so simple.
All correspondence from CC has been signed as - Christian Connection, Sarah, Victoria, or Jonathan.
No other details.
So, they assume the right to track people's devices, get their bank details, demand photo ID as licence or passport, while they hide behind first names and company name without any further identification of themselves.
What gives a website owner the right to get anybody's licence or passport number and access those details?
Only government officials or the police can do that.

I really like the site, but it's a complete ghost town from where I live; Washington state. It would be helpful if they advertised more for US customers.

Overall Christian Connection is good and I would recommend, but there are some things that could be better designed.

Pros:
· Level of detail possible in the profile and a good range of sections
· Being able to set filters for age, distance, ethnicity etc.
· Being able to scan multiple people on the homepage
· No limits (as far as I can see) on the number of people you can view/message/match each day

Areas for improvement:
· When I first signed up, my profile became active before I had even finished filling it out - there should be a 'save/become live' button before this occurs.
· One set of filters should work both ways i.e. should filter what you see and also control whether other people can see you. The age range you are 'shown to' uses different categories to the filters that affect who is shown to you, which is odd. Also, if you are a free (unpaid) member, you only get age filters to control who you are shown to, but because you have to click through to people's profiles to see their ages and thereby show up in their 'viewed you' tab, this can lead to messages from people outside your age preferences.
· The app should have the same functionality as the webpage - it was incredibly confusing to read on the help page about the 'viewed you' tab and having no sign of that in the app. A lot of people just use the apps now!
· Possibly the biggest disadvantage is that without a subscription you can't send messages other than preset replies - which effectively means you can't take it past a mutual like or wave with anyone unless *both* of you have paid.
· I think it would be better to separate the list of likes from the list of messages, because it is confusing having them both in the same tab, and means searching up and down to find the people you are actually communicating with.

Profiles are as detailed as you choose to make it. Nicely layout pages.

I'm Andy l don't have any more experience

Because you can find out more or less everything about the person that you have taken a likening too : striaght talking no nessingcabout

Poor experience and discriminatory. A guy was rude towards me on the sight and I responded thanking him for revealing his true self as I would not want to be with anyone with this kind of behaviour. CC sided with the guy and sent me a warning. It made me feel uncomfortable as a female on a dating website, CC does not provide any protection to ensure you are safe. Ive complained and they've now closed my account