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We are planning to get married.

I met somebody on this site :-). We met on August of 2007. I said yes on his profile and he said yes too. Then we sent some cards for a few days. He sent me an IM and then we talked every day. We speak different languages. My native language is Spanish, I am from Uruguay. His mother's tongue is German, so we still talk in English. We started to talk on August 26th and on September 26th, he booked the flight to come here! We met face to face on November 30th in the airport. I will go visit him at the end of this month. We are planning to get married in December.

Ianka_natalia & Rob_Lindau

Ianka_natalia & Rob_Lindau

It is as if we were always a part of each other’s lives.

I am finally writing our Story. After having been on ASC and other Adventist Singles sites for several years, I had still not found that right person. I had originally joined these sites not with any real intention of finding someone, but rather for finding SDA friends where I was living. I had come back to the faith after having been living some time in the world. The Lord blessed me with many friends here and other places. Some I seen go on to meet and marry their special someone. I would delete my profile and then after months I would come back to see who was new and curious as to just maybe I might meet someone. Well last year I had deleted my account around February of 2007. Then this last September I decided to move from where I was living in California to where my mom was living in Oregon. I had two choices: move to Arizona or to Oregon. After much prayer and thought, I chose Oregon. Part of that thought was getting back online checking out local churches for what kind of young adults lived around those towns. Including reactivating my account on this site and checking out the young adult population from this angle. I had no intention of looking for a prospect, I was looking for friends. It seemed from my research and prayer that Oregon was the best choice. So with that, I made my decision. Not two days after, I had put the wheels into action for the move. I received a profile from djharvey. I looked at his profile and thought, "what is this guy sending me his profile for, he is nice looking and seems like someone that would be a great match spiritually, life style wise and so on". I waited a couple days before I emailed him back. Honestly, I was afraid to.
Then one night while sitting at my computer staring at his profile, I was arguing with God about responding to him. I was scared because I did not want to get rejected, but after all he had sent me his profile.
I felt the Lord telling me to let go and let him work here and to trust him. So I said OK! Don’t be so serious about this, just have fun, it will be an adventure. If it does not work out, oh well, I will have made another friend I am sure. So with a new attitude about the whole thing, I wrote to him. A couple cards and emails later, we started instant messaging, chatting, and then phone calls. I moved to Oregon at the end of November. On December 7th, he drove from College Place, Washington to meet me and spent the weekend with my Mother and I. Just after Christmas, I drove the nine hours to College Place and spent a week and a half with him and his parents and his two children. On January 1st, he asked me to marry him. I said yes of course. It has been kind of a whirlwind, but it is as if we were always a part of each other’s lives.
We had crazy connections of friends and family throughout our lives. For example, His grandmother in Montana used to baby-sit my cousins from the side of my family that is not even SDA. The list goes on. God directed me here; I knew that, but to what end I had no clue. Dan and I feel so very blessed. He is my perfect match and my man after God’s own heart. Thank you for your site and the work that you do. Dan and I will be married June 8th 2008 in California with some of our friends attending the wedding that I met from this very site. Thanks again!

DeeDee
eveningsong & djharvey

eveningsong & djharvey

I have never been happier.

Time Well Wasted

My name is Jess and here is my testimony that God really does have someone special for all of us.

Tony and I met a couple months ago over the Adventist Singles Connection website. I heard about it from friend of mine and I honestly thought it was a joke. After they had told me about their personal experience with it I admit it caught my attention a little. So a couple of weeks later I made my own account and subscribed to it's services for a month. A week later I met Tony.

We were in a chat room. I was just sitting there reading up on the many conversations going on at the same time. By that time I had met some really amazing people and even a possible roommate for college in the fall of '08 when I planned on transferring to finish up my degree in Journalism.

Anyways, he entered the chat room and easily joined in the conversation. When the chat died a little bit, he started spurting off completely random Ron White jokes. This immediately caught my eye. Ron White has always been one of my favorite comedians. Without hesitation, I joined in, finishing up the joke. The rest of that evening was filled with lots of laughter. I had almost forgotten what it felt like to laugh the way that I did that night.

Soon enough we took our conversation out of the chat room and over the phone. Within a month we had talked over the phone on average of AT LEAST 3 hours a day. There were a couple days when we didn't call each other, but there were also a couple of nights when we stayed up the entire night just talking about everything, anything, and even nothing at all. I had never before connected to someone on the level that I had established with him.

In previous relationships I had always had a hard time connecting with people. I found myself withdrawn and afraid of trusting someone for fear that I would get hurt. It seemed to be an ongoing pattern for me. So to find someone that I could connect with in such a mannner as I had with Tony ... well, I found myself growing very close to him. I felt an immediate feeling of trust towards him and soon enough we were sharing intimate facts about ourselves. Family, past relationships, God ... things we wanted from life. Fears, dreams, even our hopes. Talking to Tony, well ... it became something of an addiction. One that I had no problem giving into, haha! Nothing in my life had felt more natural than the conversations that I had shared with him, except for peeing of course, nothing gets more natural than that! Haha! Just kidding!

Anyways, after 4000 texts messages, 90 hours worth of conversations over the phone, and a month later, we knew we wanted to meet each other.

My father travels a lot for the company he works with and he's acquired quite a few air miles over the last few years. So he offered me some of his air miles, meaning a free plane ticket so that I could fly out to Washington to meet Tony. No one was too happy about me going across the country to meet a boy I had met over the internet, but I knew that God had lead me to Tony and I trusted that I would be safe.

My plane landed at 1:05 pm West Coast time on January 4th in Spokane Washington. It was a long flight from Baltimore to Washington, but what developed that week was nothing short of amazing, and also nothing short of a blessing.

Being with Tony for those 10 days was the best thing that has ever happened to me. We had already connected strongly over the course of our previous conversations and when we were together, I wasn't nervous at all. It felt right, and I felt safe. Some strong declarations were made that first weekend and I knew then and there, this was where I was meant to be.

I said a lot of prayers ... and Tony and I talked about how we could pursue this relationship and make it work. So I decided that I would move to Washington and finish up my college degree there in Journalism. He was a bit hesitant about it and we both felt a little rushed, but I was at a point in my life where I was secure enough for the move and it felt like a now or never deal. So we opted for now.

When I came home, I told my family that I was going to move to Washington and no one was thrilled at all. They only saw me quitting school for some boy. After a few days tempers cooled down and I felt that they were starting to be a little more accepting of the matter.

I made a plan to attend college part time this semester and pick up a full time job to save a little more money so that I could move comfortably and set myself up in Washington as quickly as possibly.

I'm taking a couple of online classes and I'm still in the process of finding a full time job. I would like to be leaving my current home on the East Coast by April. My family has agreed to help me, and I'm very thankful for that. I know that I can count on my family, on God, and even Tony has offered me his help should I need it.

So there you have it. I never believed that internet dating was possible. Not only was I against online relationships, but I never felt strongly about long distance relationships either. Here I am, and both of them factor into my current relationship and I have never been happier.

I finally found a guy who loves me just as I am. He doesn't mind that I have a little baggage, he's even the kind of guy who offers to help lift that burden. I finally found a guy who wants to hold open the door for me and even help me in and out of a car. A guy who is understanding, considerate, intelligent, romantic and passionate about God, among so many other wonderful characteristics!

Tony and I have many many things in common with each other. We're both looking to be closer to God. We like the same music, the same kinds of foods ... movies. It's wonderful to have someone to share the things that I love with and to have someone who wants to share their passions with me in return.

I'm moving in a couple months to be with him and I'm extremely pumped about it. He will be flying to the East Coast in a few weeks to meet my parents and my friends and I know for certain that when they meet him they will be at ease knowing that their daughter has found this absolutely amazing guy.

My parents only want the best for me, and Tony ... he is the best. He's responsible, independent, and very mature ... that will be the three qualities about him that will be sure to win their hearts.

So, I want to thank you, the creators and maintainers of the Adventist Singles Connection website, for creating this connection for single Adventists like Tony and I. Without you, and without God, we would never have met.

Much love from
Jess and Tony
AdvntstGrl and WACountryBoy

AdvntstGrl & WACountryBoy

We could not live without each other.

We both joined the site unreservedly as we liked the traditional approach of meeting someone face to face. She resided at the time in Jamaica (Medical Technologist) and I resided in Turks & Caicos Islands (Mathematics Teacher). However, God had a plan for our lives. We both loved things of nature, variety of cuisines (especially vegetarian based) and also exploring the Word of God. After the initial IM on March 2006, the conversation and friendship blossomed with exchange of emails and numbers. We both sent each other encouraging words, smiles, and jokes on and off the site. July of that same year we met for the first time in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a warm embrace that sparked a deeper relationship. We became extremely deep friends and we then realized that we could not live without each other.
Each holiday I would go to Jamaica and spend a wonderful and enjoyable time with her especially by the seaside (we both love the splashing waves with the sun setting in the background).
The love between us escalated and we eventually prayed about our future together, which included a "date" for the following year. We got married at the Mount Salem Seventh Day Adventist Church, Montego Bay, December 16, 2007. We are currently residing in Bermuda where she is a Medical Technoligist and I am a Mathematics Teacher. God continues to be a central focus of our lives as the love He provided for us yesterday will last today and forever.

Dwight

D. Rhule...But ... God rules better!

ivingbyfaith and d2heart

We had been longing and praying

Me (niceskinnygirl) and Flip (his id in ASC) just join this site for few weeks (less than 1 month) when we first start chat on feb 7, 2005. Thats how everything started, just from the simple hello from me and GOD brought us together. I believe GOD already prepared him for me and me for him. Coz we had been longing and praying to meet our lifetime partner.
Flip was ready to leave his life and family in US and find a job here in Indonesia. Finally we get married on January 7, 2007. Now we are expecting our first baby that will born in November 2007.
Thanks GOD for allowing me to meet the king of my heart here through ASC. Thank you ASC!!!

niceskinnygirl & Flip