Combined services
Easter, Thanksgiving, anniversaries and Christmas Eve, when the Korean ministry and the English ministry worship together.
Immigrant & bilingual churches
One church, two generations.
The parents pray in the language they grew up with. The children dream in English. Same Sermon lets them sit in the same service and hear the same sermon, each in the language of their heart.
Preach in the language you pray in.
Many immigrant churches carry two congregations under one roof. The first generation worships in Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin or Vietnamese. Their children and grandchildren grew up in American schools and follow best in English. Often they end up in separate services, sometimes in separate buildings.
That separation is sometimes right. But on the Sundays when you want to be together, language shouldn’t be the wall. With Same Sermon, your pastor preaches in the language they know best, and the second generation reads or listens along in English on their phones. It works the other way, too.
Your pastor can preach in
Same Sermon listens to preaching in 29 languages and translates into any of our 60.
EnglishEspañolPortuguêsFrançaisKreyòl ayisyen한국어中文（简体）粵語Tiếng ViệtTagalogالعربيةفارسیاردوעבריתहिन्दीதமிழ்ไทยBahasa Indonesia日本語РусскийУкраїнськаPolskiRomânăDeutschItalianoNederlandsΕλληνικάTürkçeKiswahili
Where it helps
The moments when your whole church is in one room.
Family and youth nights
When parents come to the youth service, or grandparents come to the family night, and the message is in the “other” language.
Weddings, funerals and baptisms
The days when relatives arrive who don’t speak the language of the service, and every word matters.
Guest speakers
A visiting missionary preaches in English to a Spanish-speaking church. Or a guest pastor from Brazil speaks to an English-speaking one.
New members from new places
A family from Ethiopia joins a Spanish-speaking church. Add Amharic for them without hiring a new interpreter.
When the interpreter is away
If you already have a volunteer interpreter, give them a Sunday off, or give them a backup when they’re sick.
For English-speaking churches
Welcoming new neighbors.
Maybe your church sponsored a refugee family. Maybe your ESL class has students who have started visiting on Sunday. Maybe the neighborhood around your building has changed, and you’d like the people who live there to feel at home inside it.
You don’t need a bilingual pastor or a separate service to begin. Put a QR code in the bulletin, and let your new neighbors hear the same sermon everyone else does, in their own language, sitting right beside you.
A gentle word of advice
Technology can open a door, but people walk through it. The best thing you can do is pair Same Sermon with a real welcome: a greeter who says hello, someone to sit with, an invitation to lunch.
And if a member of your church speaks the language, ask them to check the translation on the first Sunday. They’ll help you get the names right, and they may become your new neighbors’ first friend.
Honest about the hard parts
What to know before you start.
Honorifics and titles
Titles like 목사님, Pastor, Hermano or 传道 carry respect. Add the names and titles you use to your custom word list so they come out the way your people say them.
Switching languages mid-sermon
Many bilingual pastors move between languages in one sentence. The AI follows the main language best, so choose the one your pastor uses most.
It’s a translation, not an interpreter
It won’t read the room or soften a hard word. Your bilingual leaders are still the heart of a multilingual church.
Bring your church back into one room.
Start free, or try it right now with your own voice in your own language.