“I wanted to meet a Christian. And I felt that Christian Connection was the right place.” When Yinka set out to find a special connection, her Christian Connection profile led her to Moyo, whose friends had told him he needed to “put yourself out there… meet new people.” Find out how Moyo and Yinka went from Facetiming and mini golf to a wonderful love story and three marriages…
To begin the dating process, both Moyo and Yinka had joined Christian Connection individually. Yinka first: “I joined the site and it was pretty easy… Just create a profile and photos, a few details about myself and then my interests.” Moyo came later: “I joined when the app came out. It was a pretty seamless process. I also paid for the membership to give me more access to the site, which was very helpful in terms of meeting new people.”
Ginka spotted Moyo first. “Moyo was really smartly dressed. And I think that’s what stood out for me.” Once Moyo received her message, he was intrigued. “Yinka came to me first so after her message I checked her profile… she seemed like a very friendly and outgoing person…. she was also a Christian and a Bible-believing Christian … she was a beautiful private person.’
He was also confident! “I just went straight in… I wasn’t really shy about making a move. I just hit him up, saying, “Hi, I’m Ginka. Nice to meet you.'”
Moyo said, “we talked a little bit on the app before she gave me her number and then we had a few conversations… almost every day we talked, sent each other voice notes, sent pictures, sent memes, before we met for the first time, January 2022. “
The first date!
“We said we would meet in the first week of January,” Ginka recalled, “So we had all Christmas to go back and forth. And again that first week of January when we finally got together, it was really cool…we went mini golfing and then went out to eat. We took some pictures of each other… we just talked for ages and shared our stories and were really open with each other. We just found that from day one, we were very comfortable with each other… I remember just laughing on the train. I can’t even remember what we’re laughing about…. And then that day, I texted my friends and said, “Hey guys, I think I just met my husband.”
He added, “There was an element of truth to it. It was just easy to be with Moyo when we met… Nothing felt wrong. It felt right, because he was a Christian, very quickly we talked about the Bible, we prayed together, we prayed for each other. So it felt like it was a relationship I had never experienced before… I knew very quickly that yes, this is definitely my person. This is someone I could live with.”
Next steps…
Moyo took his time to get to know Yinka well: “I would say it was a gradual process… getting to know Yinka more and more. And I think the more I got to know… the more comfortable I felt living with her. I always wanted some kind of confirmation from God… And finally January 2023 came. When I felt that God spoke to me through His Word in Isaiah 41, verse 10, He says, “Do not be afraid, I will be with you, you know, I am the Your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you.” And I think that… silenced any fear of this step. And I just knew, yes, this is it.”
“I called the date the full circle. We did the exact same things we did on our first date: same golf course, same restaurant. While we were out, I had her friends and their sisters get their house ready. They decorated the living room, they got all the flowers, they got the lights… So finally, when we got home, he walked into the living room and noticed that everywhere was decorated. I got down on one knee… I gave my speech and then I proposed, and then when she said, Yes, they all came out of hiding. Yes. So yeah, it was a beautiful day.”
The three weddings!
“We actually had three weddings,” said Yinka, “We had a registry office and we had a traditional Nigerian wedding. And then we had a church wedding for four days…. it was the best week of our lives. It was really nice. It was great…. every time we watch a video at night, we just wish we could do it again. I loved it.”
“We didn’t really have a big budget, but I wanted everything to be really perfect. So it’s just the help of God and our family and friends that have helped us so much. With the registry that was only our immediate parents…. we went to eat, we are
I was looking for a restaurant and it happened to be Busaba. And this was the restaurant we just met as well. So it was like, again, a full circle moment for us.
“And then we had our traditional wedding, which was in Croydon, so my hometown. His family came to my hometown to pick me up – it was really cool. So much fun, the traditional wedding was really, really fun. And then we had our white wedding at the Heritage Art Centre, in East London, which was really, really amazing, an amazing day and very beautiful.”
Moyo said: “Each day there was one particular thing that stood out to me… the registry office… the whole ceremony and then… the restaurant we went to afterwards. In the traditional, how colorful the event was. And how beautiful they all looked in traditional attire. And then just the whole process of dancing with family and friends. Then the white wedding… to be able to have a wedding in a church like this. Because we both had a desire to have it in a kind of cathedral. By God’s providence, we were able to do so in this space. The music was beautiful, everyone looked beautiful. The icing on the cake was…our first dance together, you know, dancing to a song we both loved.”
WATCH Moyo and Ginka talk about their meeting story, marriages and life from here:
“It felt like I knew her and she knew me” – Moyo & Yinka, our Christian Connection story
Moyo & Yinka’s advice for single Christians?
Moyo said: “Allow the Word of God to guide you in the decision you make regarding your life partner. Have serious conversations when dating… the person’s background where they come from, life experiences, what they believe, what are their goals, what are their plans, what are their desires? Allowing God’s Word to guide you and as much as possible. Enjoy the process, enjoy each other.”
Ginka said, “My advice is always don’t compromise if you’re a Christian. Don’t compromise on your values, on what you think the gospel is, don’t compromise by meeting someone who shares those same values. He added: “My advice to the ladies would be: sometimes shoot your shot.”
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