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It's been an incredible journey...
Hello Christian Mingle Readers,
My name is Douglas and my username is Douglas20. I wanted to tell you about the incredible success story that I experienced using the Christian Mingle website. I finished my profile as a guest member and decided to become a full member after a few weeks of checking out the website. Shortly after becoming a member I used the Think You'd
Click with option and at that moment is when my entire life changed. I sent a smile to Jodelca (her username) and she was the second or third profile that was listed under that option. We were a 98% match, but that wasn't what originally caught my eye. I loved her profile and the fact that she was very specific about everything she wanted in a man. I also enjoyed the fact that she
introduced herself as Joan giving me her first name on her profile. I also liked the fact that she wanted someone who would enjoy spending time with her family since family was a very important part of her life. What Joan didn't know at the time was how important family was for me also. Joan actually told me when I sent her my smile her Christian Mingle membership was going to expire in one week. Joan had no plans of renewing her membership either. After spending a year on the site without finding the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with she prayed and asked the Lord this. "I don't know how you're going to do this Lord, but I'm not going to renew my membership. I'm leaving this entirely in your hands God". A few days later my smile arrived in her in-box. The Lord works in mysterious ways and we should always place our faith entirely in him.
We spent the next three or four days sending emails to each other using the Christian Mingle email option. We both wrote extremely long emails to each other and most days we emailed each other three or four times per day. I knew from the second email that I received from Joan that I needed to meet with her because she sounded so incredible and was such a Godly woman. After the fourth day we gave each other our personal email addresses and continued with those long emails getting to know each other better. Joan didn't have much time left on her Christian Mingle email since her membership was going to expire. We both
tested each other out during our emailing time and always asked probing questions of each other. I was amazed at how honest and transparent Joan was. We both promised not to lie about anything regarding our past. After a few days of great communication I told Joan in an email that I would like to meet her for coffee. Joan had told me a few emails prior that she would have a day off in about 8 days and I suggested that we meet then. Joan immediately replied that she would like to meet me sooner somewhere near my work or just off the freeway. Joan already had my cell phone number from a few days back and confirmed that she would meet me that very next day on Thursday September 24th, 2009 after she left work. I loved the fact that Joan was so bold and did not want to delay our meeting time for coffee. We met at Starbucks just off the freeway on her way home.
What Joan never told me was that she never liked the pictures I posted on the Christian Mingle website. She was actually praying that I didn't look like the pictures I had posted. Joan at the time didn't think I would fit the type of man she was looking for. Joan told me that she had these thoughts when she originally saw my profile pictures, but she heard something telling her
"Give him a chance". It was a little voice she heard in her head for a reason we now can easily explain. I arrived at Starbucks about five minutes before she did. When I saw Joan come in the door she had this huge smile on her face and I was wondering why. She told me a few days later that she was so happy that I looked so much better in person than I did on the pictures I posted on Christian Mingle. Joan looked incredible and I was immediately taken over by her personality, charm, huge smile, and that great
sense of humor. I could tell immediately how much Joan loved the Lord and how she thanked God for everything that happened in her life. We spent the next 3.5 hours just talking. When it was time for Joan to leave she told me that she needed to get back home so I walked Joan to her car and I was going to tell her good bye. I gave her a hug right next to her car and she came right out and
asked me if I was interested in seeing her again. I couldn't believe she said this because I had such a great time with her and I knew she enjoyed my company too. I told her I would love to take her out on a date. A few days later Joan told me that she didn't want me to leave the parking lot without another date already set up. I was actually planning on calling her 10 minutes after she left the parking lot to ask her for another date. This never happened because she wanted another date already set up right there in the parking lot.
I told Joan that I was going to meet my parents on my sailboat on Saturday evening (in two days) for dinner and that they would also be sleeping over. I told Joan that I had Saturday morning and the afternoon completely open and we could go sailing together for the entire day. Joan immediately told me that she would love to go sailing with me on Saturday. She also told me she didn't mind meeting my parents and even having dinner with them. I thought this sounded a little strange, but I thought she wanted to meet my parents since family was so important to her. We went sailing in Marina Del Rey and we sailed through the Santa Monica Bay. Joan was so amazed that I trusted her to take the helm (the steering wheel) and that I let her sail my sailboat without any prior experience. I had so much
trust in her and this really surprised her. On my way back into the harbor I decided to show her the entire Marina Del Rey harbor since it's the largest small vessel marina in the world. Near the end of our sailing time and after five hours of sailing I gave her my first kiss. Just so everyone knows I had the auto pilot on so it was completely safe. It took me a while to get the
courage to kiss Joan, but I just couldn't wait any longer for our first kiss. Joan that same evening told me she was waiting anxiously for me to kiss her too. When my parents called and told me they were about 5 minutes from arriving Joan
was a little nervous. We all ended up spending the next three hours in the sailboat talking and having a great dinner together. I couldn't believe that Joan had met my parents on our first official date on Saturday September 26th,
2009. Joan even called me sweetheart and honey a few times during dinner. After dinner we both went for a walk and sat on a marina bench overlooking the marina main channel and sat there for another four hours just talking and watching the boats go by. This was when Joan asked me if I would be interested in being in an exclusive relationship with her. I was very excited and accepted with a huge smile on my face. After another hour passed by I walked her to the car so she could drive back home. It was already 2:30 am in the morning when we finally said good bye to each other. I had such an incredible time with Joan and had a hard time falling asleep even after being up for more than 22 hours straight.
By our next date Joan told me those three lovely words "I Love You". I was a little surprised, but I knew that I felt the exact same way about her
too. I was a little scared to say those three words so soon thinking that Joan might think I was crazy. I felt the same way she did, but Joan came right out and just said it. I also told her that I loved her right after she told me. Currently we have been dating for the last 7 weeks and we already started speaking about
our future marriage plans hopefully sometime next summer. We have spent every day together with the exception of maybe three days since our first date. Joan lives about 55 miles away from me, but that distance will never stop me from seeing her. Many times she comes and visits me too. We know that this was a match made in heaven especially for the two of us. We both have seen God's will being done in everything in our lives together. We are both getting involved in the youth ministry at Joan's church as a couple and it's been such a blessing. The idea of us serving God as a united Christian couple has been such a great
experience and such a blessing for us.
I thank God every day for meeting Joan and having her be such a huge part of my life. She has been such a positive experience in my life and I love her very much. I never knew a woman like Joan could ever exist in this world today. She is so
incredible and her love and compassion for me and everyone around her is so amazing. All I can say right now is “Thank You Christian Mingle for bringing the two of us together” and “Thank you Cara for allowing us to share our joy and happiness with everyone here at Christian Mingle”. We both have been truly blessed by God in our relationship together. It's been an incredible journey and I'm happier now than I have ever been in my entire life.
I wish everyone here the same joy and happiness we both found in each other. I hope everyone searching here will find that perfect someone. We both know without Christian Mingle we would have never met. I’m giving the Christian Mingle team a huge thank you.
Sincerely,
Douglas20 & Jodelca
Douglas20 & Jodelca
What we were experiencing was the miracle of love.
I had already decided that I was not going to renew my membership on CM. It was too hard for someone like me to "work it". Just as I had decided that, I saw Larry's picture. He has a beard and long hair and apparently that was something that I was attracted to. I clicked on his picture and saw that he lived in Michigan which was too far away from Indiana in my mind. I read his profile and discovered that what he had written was almost word for word what I had written many years ago in my journal as I prayed for a spouse. I physically felt something like a shock or a poke or something inside. Yet I ignored that and said to myself, "he is too far away." However, I decided that I would write him an e-mail and tell him that I thought what he had written was very beautiful. I did and left it at that, never expecting to hear from him. But Larry e-mailed me back and gave me his off site e-mail address. I promptly e-mailed back and told him that I didn't feel comfortable e-mailing him away from this site because I didn't know him. He responded very well to that and so we e-mailed each other here on CM every day, each e-mail getting longer. We had decided to be friends since we lived so far away. I wanted to keep in contact with this 'friend' and I was about to give him my off site e-mail address, but still needed God to show me that Larry was for real. God is so good, he showed me through my devotional book that I read every day after I pray along with my Bible. The title for the day read, "The Fruitfulness of Friendship" and the Bible verse was "I have called you friends." That was infused with the Holy Spirit and was enough for me to give Larry my e-mail. We immediately started chatting off the site. Then we exchanged phone numbers and began talking every night, anywhere from 3 hours to 6 hours a night! We still do. It wasn't too long before we realized that what we were experiencing was the miracle of love. A gift from God. I have been praying for Larry for 15 years and CM is where God chose to introduce us. We have nearly everything in common. I traveled to Michigan to meet him and the rest is history. On October 8th I went to Michigan to visit Larry and when I got there, he sat me down on his sofa, got down on both his knees and read to me the most beautiful words I had ever heard. It was his proposal to me, his promises to me for the rest of our lives. We are engaged! Woohoo!
Artgirl770 & Standing_Still
I am finding I love him more every day.
I still can't believe we met online, but somehow that's where we found each other. God has a sense of humor. We met after I moved from Twin Cities back to rural WI, and he lives in the Twin Cities area. We met, chatted, called, texted, and made visits back and forth, and then God began to work things out so that I would move back to the Twin Cities area. Now I have an amazing job, working for the best company I have been a part of, and I am engaged to an amazing man, who has a heart for God and who I am finding I love more every day.
AnnieLea & Lavia
Our story is an amazing picture of God's provision.
I, Adrienne, signed up for one month this summer not expecting anything, but really just curious. It was towards the end of my proscription when Joey found me. He sent me an email and I told him that my subscription would be running out soon so I gave him my email address. We then began to email one another for the whole month of June. Then, finally, haha, he asked for my number and we, for the month of July, talked over the phone every night and never less than an hour. He was in Oklahoma and I was in Alabama and after getting to know one another so well, we couldn't take it anymore. We set a date to meet and he drove 10 hours August 15th to spend four days with me. When I first saw him in my driveway, I just ran to him and jumped in his arms and he spun me around and we were both shaking because we were so excited, haha. He meet my family that day because he is a gentleman and knew my family meant the world to me. Our first date was a drive-in movie :) and a picnic in the back of his truck and it was the most amazing date I have ever had. He treated me like a princess which is what every girl wants. Our conversation was like it always is, flowing and never ceasing. Let me also just say that we had our first kiss that night as well... our last first kiss :)
He is the young man I have prayed for since I was a little girl. He is everything I have ever wanted and more. He fits me perfectly and, haha, as I understand I am perfect for him. We are both so blessed to have one another in our lives. I love our story and it is beautiful to me how God can take anything and use it to make a marvelous love story. I always tell people that our story is an amazing picture of God's provision. And it is so true, I never knew I would meet, literally, the man of my dreams through here, but I am so thankful I did. I tell people who ask me, how did that work, it's just a different way to get to know someone.
Thank you Christian Mingle from Joey and me, Adrienne, for providing a place for woman and men of God to come and be able to online date. I have found the love of my life :)
agee2
When we met we knew that we were meant for each other.
Don aka: Native of CA and Melinda aka: KmelindaH met on Christian Mingle on 7-15-2009 and started writing and sending each other pictures. Both of us have now met and fell in love.......We want to have a committed relationship and hope that others will not feel the websites do not work. Both of us have met numerous people on Christian Mingle, some were wonderful, some not, but when we met we knew that we were meant for each other. We will ask God for guidance in this relationship and seek His will to guide us for our future.
Don and Melinda
KMelindaH & NativeofCA
