Ukrainian Church Sermon Translation for Welcoming Families
Sermon Translate turns an English sermon into Ukrainian captions while the pastor preaches, and a Ukrainian sermon into English. Churches hosting Ukrainian families can let them follow the whole message from the first Sunday, without waiting for a volunteer interpreter.
From the first Sunday, not the first year
A family that has just arrived cannot wait months to understand the sermon. With Ukrainian captions on the projector, or on their own phones, they follow the preaching, the announcements and the prayers the same morning everyone else does.
- English sermon, Ukrainian captions on the screen or on a phone
- QR Code Join, included in every plan: families scan a code and read in the browser with no account
- Conversation Mode for a pastor's first visit with a family, one phone and two languages
What Sermon Translate does in Ukrainian
Ukrainian works in both directions: a preacher can speak Ukrainian into the app, and members can read the sermon in Ukrainian.
- The 66 Bible book names are built in for Ukrainian, taken from a published Ukrainian Bible, so a spoken book name comes out the way that Bible writes it. Other church vocabulary is general translation guided by church context, and your church glossary fixes the terms that matter to you.
- Verse popups cannot show the passage in Ukrainian yet, because the Bible editions connected today cover only English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Filipino / Tagalog.
Ukrainian preaching for a mixed church
When a Ukrainian pastor or guest preacher speaks, choose Ukrainian as the speaker language and show English captions for the host congregation. Russian can be added as a second reading language for members who read Russian more easily.
Words that must stay the same
Add the names of host families, ministries and places, and any Ukrainian church terms your members prefer, to the church glossary. The app applies them to every translation, so a name never comes out three different ways in one sermon.
How a church sets up Ukrainian captions 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 Ukrainian as a reading language, 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
Where do the Ukrainian Bible book names come from?
The 66 book names were taken from the Ohienko Ukrainian Bible, so a spoken book name comes out the way that Bible writes it.
Do Ukrainian families need to create an account?
Not to read the projector or livestream. To read on their own phones, each person needs their own account, and a plan once its free monthly hour is used, unless they scan the church's QR code, which needs no account (QR Code Join is included in every plan).
Does it speak the translation aloud?
No. Sermon Translate shows text captions only; it does not produce spoken audio.
What does it cost to show Ukrainian captions 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.
Can an English sermon be translated into Ukrainian live?
Yes. Choose English, or the language your pastor preaches in, as the speaker language and Ukrainian as the reading language. Ukrainian can also be preached into the app, so a Ukrainian sermon can be read in English or another language.