Guides
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.
- Preaching with Live Translation: Tips for PastorsHow 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 learning who is in the room.
- Church Interpretation Costs: A Budgeting GuideHow to budget for church interpretation: volunteers, paid interpreters, headset equipment and live translation, with a worksheet and PewTranslate's exact pricing.
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.
- Church 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: the operator starts a stream from a laptop, listeners scan a QR code, and each phone shows and speaks the sermon in its own language.
- Pricing: $5 per Hour per LanguagePewTranslate costs $5 per hour for each language someone is listening to, billed by the minute of speech. New accounts get $20 of credit, about 4 hours of one language.
- Sermon Translation in 106 LanguagesEvery language PewTranslate offers: 106 listener languages and regional variants, and 82 languages the preacher can speak.