I need to remind myself that although certainly sharing similar religious beliefs can be something that brings people together, practicing faith already does that for most churchgoers one or more times per week. Some folks must find soul mates while worshipping with their local congregation, or parish. This dating site, however, is more devoted to international match ups.
The reason why I would suggest that the site is better suited to global online dating is there are no truly localized searches. You can only search by country, state, or province, and select cities. Therefore, it's not that easy to verify how many fellow members are living nearby to you. I think that most of us might appreciate being able to easily meet someone closer to home that simply attends a different church within even the same denomination as our own.
"Christian Cupid seems to keep going on a wing and a prayer."
Replying to messages is free while initiating contact by instant messaging or email requires a paid membership. The chat rooms conversely will work for anyone as long as he, or she, has posted a photo with a profile. That seems to mean that one finds more profiles with photos than one sees on many other sites. They further enhance the general quality of the profiles that already demand a good amount of mandatory fields be completed.
One thing that I would say is missing from ChristianCupid.com, which I would consider important to any online web personals sites serving a specific niche, are other features to create a sense of community.
There are no message boards, blogs or even dating advice geared towards its members. In other Christian dating sites I've visited, the inclusion of such things has definitely helped visitors relate on a more spiritual basis.
There isn't much to fault the site on in an objective sense. It offers as much to its members as many other competing sites do, but somehow it just isn't achieving its full potential. The site should consider working on promoting itself more, as well as perhaps adding some more faith-based features. For now, Christian Cupid seems to keep going on a wing and a prayer.
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