Swahili Church Sermon Translation for East African Congregations
Sermon Translate translates a sermon preached in Swahili into English captions, or an English sermon into Swahili, while the pastor speaks. East African churches can keep one service for parents and children, and churches hosting East African families can let them follow every word.
One service for Kiswahili speakers and English speakers
Swahili-speaking churches often gather believers from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo and beyond, with children who read English best. The pastor can preach in Swahili with English captions on the screen, or preach in English with Swahili captions.
- Swahili preaching, English captions
- English preaching, Swahili captions
- Kinyarwanda, Luganda, Amharic and other African caption languages available for families who read them better
What Sermon Translate does in Swahili
Swahili works in both directions: a preacher can speak Swahili into the app, and members can read the sermon in Swahili.
- The 66 Bible book names are built in for Swahili, taken from a published Swahili 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 Swahili yet, because the Bible editions connected today cover only English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Refugee and resettlement ministry
Churches that sponsor families from East and Central Africa can use Conversation Mode for the first home visit: two people, two languages, one phone, each half of the screen showing the other person's words translated.
Before the first service
Test with your own preacher during the free 3-hour trial, give the laptop a clean sound feed, and put the names of your pastors, choirs and fellowships into the church glossary.
Where do the Swahili Bible book names come from?
The 66 book names were taken from the Swahili Union Version, so a spoken book name comes out the way that Bible writes it.
Can the pastor switch between Swahili and English in one sermon?
The app listens for the speaker language you choose, so a sermon that switches languages often is harder to caption well. Test your preacher's style during the trial.
Can a verse popup show the Swahili 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.