Translation for Church Refugee and Resettlement Ministry

Sunday: the sermon in their language

A newly arrived family can read the sermon in their own language on the projector or their own phone. With QR Code Join, included in every plan, they scan a code and read in the browser without creating an account, which matters when a family has one phone and no email address yet.

What works in each language today

Taken from the app's own language settings, so it matches what the app does now. Verse popups can show Bible text in English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Filipino / Tagalog.

• Ukrainian: can be preached in and read; the 66 Bible book names built in; no verse popup text in this language yet.
• Arabic: can be preached in and read; the 66 Bible book names built in; no verse popup text in this language yet; captions read right to left.
• Pashto: reading language only, the app cannot yet listen to preaching in it; no built-in church vocabulary yet; no verse popup text in this language yet; captions read right to left.
• Swahili: can be preached in and read; the 66 Bible book names built in; no verse popup text in this language yet.
• Burmese: reading language only, the app cannot yet listen to preaching in it; no built-in church vocabulary yet; no verse popup text in this language yet.

During the week: one phone, two languages

Conversation Mode shares one microphone between two people. Each speaks their own language and reads the other's words translated on their own half of the screen. It suits home visits, rides to appointments and first conversations, but for medical, legal or crisis conversations a professional interpreter is still the right choice.

Check the language first

Some languages can be preached in and some can only be read. Dari is not supported; Pashto, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali and Burmese are reading languages only. Check the language list before you promise a family anything, and use the trial to test.

How to set it up for a service

One laptop, tablet or phone near the pulpit does the work. Give it clean sound from the sound desk or a microphone close to the preacher, sign in, choose the language being preached and the reading language or languages your members need, and start. The room reads the captions on the projector through the Subtitles screen, online viewers see them in the livestream through the OBS overlay, and members who prefer their own phone scan a QR code with QR Code Join, included in every plan, and read with no account.

• Before the service: add names, ministries and church terms to the glossary, and choose a Bible version for verse popups
• During the service: keep the device on power and online; captions follow the preaching sentence by sentence
• After the service: the transcript is saved to the account, and the Standard plan turns it into AI sermon notes

Can Conversation Mode be used with a reading only language?

Conversation Mode needs to hear both people, so both languages must be ones the app can listen to. Check the language page for which languages can be spoken.

Is it private?

Sessions run through our servers to be translated and transcripts are saved to your account. Read the privacy policy and avoid using it for conversations that need a professional interpreter.

What does it cost a volunteer team?

1 free hour every month, then plans from $19.99 a month.

What does it cost to run this every Sunday?

Every account gets 1 free hour every month of live translation, enough to test a full service. Basic is $19.99 a month for 12 hours and Standard is $34 a month for 30 hours. Free and Basic include one reading language, Standard includes two and All Languages includes every language. Each language beyond that uses another hour of plan time for every hour of the service.