Translate your church service into Romanian

Two congregations, one building

In many towns a Romanian Pentecostal or Baptist congregation meets on Sunday afternoon in the same building where a British church meets in the morning. The two share a kitchen, a car park and sometimes a heating bill, but rarely a service. A language barrier is the obvious reason.

A joint service at Harvest, Pentecost or Christmas changes that. With ChurchTranslate the British pastor preaches in English and Romanian members hear the sermon in Romanian on their phones. When the Romanian pastor preaches, the technician switches the speaker language to Romanian with one tap, and the British members choose English. Nobody needs to wait for an interpreter's sentence to finish, and the service does not take twice as long.

Romanian speakers in the local church

Not every Romanian goes to a Romanian church. Builders, care workers, drivers and nurses from Romania and Moldova also join local English-speaking churches, especially when they live far from a Romanian congregation or are married to someone British. Many speak decent English at work but find a 40-minute sermon tiring. Captions in Romanian, with the original English alongside, let them follow without losing the thread.

Orthodox, Pentecostal, Baptist

Romanian Christians in Britain come from different traditions. The Romanian Orthodox parishes have their own liturgy; the Pentecostal and Baptist churches are often lively, with long sermons and plenty of testimony. ChurchTranslate translates what is spoken into the microphone, in whatever tradition. It keeps a terminology list for church words, but biblical names and traditional terms are the hardest part to get exactly right. More on that in Bible names and terms.

How listeners use it

1. 01
   Scan the QR code

   On the screen or on a printed card. The page opens in the phone's browser, with no account and nothing to install.

2. 02
   Choose Română

   Romanian speakers pick Română; English speakers pick English when a Romanian preacher is on.

3. 03
   Listen or read

   Earbuds in for the translated voice, or audio off and captions only. The original text can be shown alongside.

Cost

A two-hour joint service with translation into Romanian and English costs at most 2 × 120 = 240 credits, and only the minutes in which someone listens to each language count. For a few joint services a year, a credit pack that never expires is often enough. See the pricing.