PewTranslateGuides
Guides for churches that preach to more than one language
Practical advice from the setup checklist to the pulpit, written for pastors, sound volunteers and welcome teams. Each guide stands on its own.
Guides
- How to Set Up Live Translation in Your ChurchA practical checklist for sound volunteers: getting clean audio into the laptop, network for listeners, QR codes, a test run, and a Sunday-morning routine.
- Tips for Preaching with Live TranslationHow to preach so live translation works well: sentence endings, Bible references, names, idioms and humour, without changing your style.
- Welcoming Visitors Who Speak Other LanguagesHow churches can welcome people who speak other languages: announcing translation, greeters, signage, follow-up with transcripts, and knowing who is there.
- Church Interpretation Costs: Budget GuideHow to budget for church interpretation: volunteers, paid interpreters, headset equipment and live translation, with a worksheet and PewTranslate's pricing.
- How to Plan a Bilingual Church ServiceFormats for a service in two languages, with their trade-offs, and practical choices for songs, Scripture readings, prayer, announcements and the sermon.
- YouTube Live Translation for Church StreamsWhat YouTube can and cannot translate during a live church service, the three ways to give online viewers the sermon in their language, and the delay to test.
Comparisons
- Live Translation vs. Volunteer InterpretersAn honest comparison of AI live translation and human church interpreters: quality, languages, availability, cost, and when to use each, or both.
- Live Translation vs. Church Headset SystemsPhone-based live translation compared with FM and infrared headset interpretation systems for churches: equipment, logistics, languages, reliability and cost.
- Live Translation vs. Phone Translator AppsWhy a general translator app on a listener's phone struggles in a sanctuary, and how a church live translation feed like PewTranslate differs.
Keep reading
- How Live Church Translation WorksHow PewTranslate works on a Sunday: start the stream on a laptop, listeners scan a QR code, and each phone shows and speaks the sermon in its own language.
- Pricing: US$5 per Hour per LanguagePewTranslate costs US$5 an hour for each language someone listens to, billed by the minute of speech. New accounts will get US$20 of free credit.
- Sermon Translation in 106 LanguagesEvery language PewTranslate offers: 106 listener languages and regional variants, and 82 languages the preacher can speak.