Church translation solutions for every kind of church
From church plants to multi-site churches, spf.io can adapt and scale to your church’s unique situation and needs. Discover how to make your church accessible and multilingual by selecting a church type below.
CHURCH PLANT
Multilingual from day one
Church plants have a unique opportunity to create a community reflecting God’s Kingdom’s diversity from day one. These churches embrace multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual worship without being constrained by existing cultural dominance.
How spf.io helps church plants like One Voice Fellowship:
- Empower your congregation to worship together in multiple languages with real-time captions and translations displayed on big screens and mobile devices
- Easily align subtitles on the video recording of the service using FastSRT
- Allow volunteers to review translations in advance for quality assurance
MULTI-SITE CHURCH
Expand outreach & discipleship across multiple languages
Multi-site or multi-campus churches often serve communities where many languages are spoken, requiring unique leadership to create belonging and connection. With as many as 90 languages spoken in some churches, the challenge is to unite everyone under one vision.
How spf.io helps multi-site churches like First Alliance Church, Calgary:
- Connect with immigrants and refugees by offering worship services in multiple languages across campuses without burning out staff and volunteers
- Stream audio interpretation and captions directly to people’s smartphones without extra equipment for a seamless worship experience
- Seamlessly integrate with existing technologies to embed and display translations on a website or app
- Enhance online presence with captions and translations for digital content
- Localize documents and digital signage to meet the language needs of your visitors
NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH
Create belonging in your local community
Neighborhood churches are deeply rooted in their local communities, demonstrating God’s love through their connection and service. As neighborhoods diversify, these churches increasingly need tools to effectively reach and include new neighbors.
How spf.io helps neighborhood churches like Overlake Park Presbyterian Church:
- Display captions and translation in multiple languages on public displays and mobile devices to reach and include their diverse neighbors
- Include the Deaf and Hard of Hearing by providing live captions and assistive listening audio that can integrate with hearing aids over Bluetooth
- Enhance accessibility by providing audio descriptions for the blind, ensuring that every individual can fully engage in worship
ETHNIC CHURCH
Bridge generations and cultures
Ethnic churches offer a vital space for immigrants and refugees to feel at home. As these churches grow, they face the challenge of engaging younger generations who may feel disconnected from their parents’ language and traditions. As third culture kids, they face unique challenges in upholding their heritage while integrating with the majority culture.
How spf.io helps ethnic churches:
- Resolve the translation volunteer burnout problem.
- Preserve cultural identity and sustain language ability.
- Create belonging between generations.
- Include people from other cultures who wish to worship with you.
- Ensure everyone feels included by translating bulletins, sermons, handouts, worship songs and meeting notes into all the languages spoken in your congregation.
INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
Cultivate global fellowship through
multilingual worship
International churches bring together people from all over the world. They offer a unique place for travelers, international students, and expatriates to worship together, often in English or another “lingua franca,” while navigating the complexities of multiple languages and cultures.
How spf.io helps international churches like Taichung International Fellowship:
- Provide multilingual services week after week with live captions, translations, and audio streaming displayed on big screens or directly to mobile devices, ensuring every congregant feels included
- Simplify sermon and content translation, reducing the workload for staff and volunteers and helping your church thrive as a global community
COUNCIL OR DENOMINATION
Empower leaders to vote in all the languages of your polity
Church councils and denominational bodies are vital for keeping congregations connected and making decisions that shape the life of the church. As these councils grow increasingly diverse, it’s essential that all members—regardless of language—can fully understand and participate in decision-making processes.
How spf.io helps councils like Pacific Presbytery:
- Give every member a voice by providing multilingual polls that allow participants to vote confidently in their own language in online, hybrid, or in-person meetings
- Ensure clear communication with real-time captions and translation in 100+ languages displayed on big screens, mobile devices, or embedded in live streams
- Accelerate document translation for meeting dockets, handouts, and other materials, ensuring that everyone can access important information in their preferred language
DIGITAL CHURCH
Unite people across the digital world
Digital churches connect people of faith across geographical boundaries, offering a fully online experience. They engage diverse and global congregations, requiring innovative approaches to foster community, inclusivity, and meaningful worship.
How spf.io helps digital churches like United Community Church:
- Integrate seamlessly with platforms like Zoom and YouTube to deliver live captions, translation, and audio in 100+ languages to people’s mobile devices or embedded on a website or app
- Host online Bible studies, prayer meetings, and fellowship in multiple languages
- Engage a global audience by translating digital materials, from sermon notes to community announcements, ensuring everyone can participate in your church’s online experience
Ready to make your church accessible in many languages?
Schedule a call to assess your church’s needs and get a solution tailored for you.