Start with the big picture
If live translation is new to your church, read how to translate a church service first. It covers the whole process, from the first conversation with your elders to the Sunday a visitor hears the sermon on their phone, and it points to the other guides when you need more detail. After that, most churches sign up, run the free 10-minute trial service and come back here with the specific question that came up during the test.
If your leadership is still weighing a volunteer interpreter against software, start with church interpreter or AI translation. It is an honest comparison, including the moments when a person is still the better choice.
Pick the guide for your role
- Tech team and sound booth volunteers: audio setup shows how to send a clean feed from the board to the broadcast laptop, and the first-service checklist walks you from the week before to the last song.
- Pastors, executive pastors and finance teams: what church translation costs works through real examples in US dollars, so you can put a realistic line in next year's budget.
- Ministry leaders in bilingual and multi-ethnic churches: bilingual and multilingual churches looks at English/Spanish services, second-generation members and what translation can and cannot do for unity.
- Greeters, connection teams and visitors: listening with the QR code is written in plain language, so you can text the link to a newcomer before Sunday.
Who these guides are for
We wrote them for churches across the United States: Hispanic and Latino ministries, bilingual English/Spanish congregations, Catholic parishes with a Spanish Mass, Korean-American and Chinese-American churches with an English-speaking next generation, refugee resettlement churches, and international churches in college towns. The guides describe what ChurchTranslate does today, in 79 languages, and they say so plainly when something is hard or not available.
Want to see it before you read further? Try the demo, check the plans and prices or browse the FAQ.