Nepali Church Translation: Live Nepali Captions for English Sermons

Sermon Translate can show an English sermon as Nepali captions while the pastor preaches, with the 66 Bible book names written the way a Nepali Bible writes them. Nepali is a reading language in the app, so Nepali preaching cannot be captioned in English yet.

For Nepali-speaking believers in English-speaking churches

Nepali-speaking families, including Bhutanese Nepali communities, often join English-speaking churches where the parents and grandparents struggle to follow the sermon. Nepali captions in Devanagari let them read along from their seat or on their own phone.

What Sermon Translate does in Nepali

Nepali is a reading language: members can follow the sermon in Nepali captions, but the app cannot yet listen to a sermon preached in Nepali.

  • The 66 Bible book names are built in for Nepali, taken from a published Nepali Bible, so a spoken book name comes out the way that Bible writes it. Other church vocabulary is general translation guided by church context, and your church glossary fixes the terms that matter to you.
  • Verse popups cannot show the passage in Nepali yet, because the Bible editions connected today cover only English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.

What works today

Nepali is a caption language with built-in Bible book names taken from the Nepali New Revised Version. The app cannot listen to Nepali preaching yet, so a Nepali church preaching in Nepali cannot use it to produce English captions.

  • English preaching with Nepali captions
  • Nepali Bible book names in the captions
  • Hindi is also available, and Hindi can be preached in

First Sunday checklist

Test with the free trial, send the sound desk feed to the laptop, add your pastors' names and ministries to the church glossary, and ask a Nepali reader to tell you which words need fixing.

Can a pastor preach in Nepali with English captions?

Not yet. Nepali is a reading language only in Sermon Translate.

Which Nepali Bible do the book names follow?

The Nepali New Revised Version.

Can a verse popup show the Nepali Bible text?

Not yet. The Bible editions connected to verse popups today cover English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.