The translator
your church
doesn’t have to hire.
MOD Translate gives every guest a phone full of your sermon — in their own language, in real time, with no headset, no app, and no extra volunteer.
Where it fits
Built for the rhythms of church life.
One platform for the moments that already mark your calendar — and the ones that show up unscheduled.
Sunday services
A QR code on the bulletin. Guests pick their language. Captions stream from the moment your worship leader says "Welcome."
Bilingual & multi-ethnic plants
Stop sermon-doubling. Preach once, translate everywhere. The text in front of every guest can match the moment, not lag behind it.
Missions & short-term teams
Send your pastor abroad with a phone and a mic. Local hosts read along in their heart language without a translator on stage.
Youth & college ministry
International students show up. Captions on their phones mean they understand the talk and the inside jokes.
Conferences & retreats
Multi-track sessions, multiple speakers, multiple languages. Each session gets its own channel; guests pick session + language.
Weddings, funerals, baptisms
The moments that matter most are the worst time to lose the room. Spin up a session in five minutes.
The listener journey
What a Spanish-speaking grandmother experiences on her first visit.
- 1
She sees a QR code on the bulletin.
No app prompt. Just a phone camera and one tap.
- 2
Her phone opens listen.modtranslate.com.
It auto-detects Spanish from her phone. She taps confirm.
- 3
The captions begin within seconds.
Big readable text. She can scroll back. She can increase the font.
- 4
Optional: a voice in her ear.
If she's wearing earbuds, she taps Listen. A natural Spanish voice begins translating in real time.
- 5
After the sermon, a decision card.
If your pastor leads a moment of response, it appears on her phone in Spanish — to pray, to talk to someone, to come back.
"Today we’re talking about hope."
"Hoy hablamos de la esperanza."
"Y la esperanza no nos defrauda..."
Decision Moment
¿Quieres que alguien ore contigo hoy?
Honest objections
The questions we get from pastors and elders.
We've built this with churches, not for them. These are the four pushbacks we hear most often — answered straight.
"We already have whisper translators."
Keep them. MOD Translate sits underneath, captioning everything they're not covering — and giving them transcripts to lean on. We make your humans better, we don't replace them.
"Our audio engineer doesn't have time."
Setup is one auxiliary feed from your board, or a USB cable from your phone. The broadcaster console is a single page. Your engineer doesn't need a new responsibility.
"My elders worry about AI on Sunday morning."
Fair. So do we. Translation is reviewed sentence-by-sentence. You hold the glossary. You can pause, edit, or take the stream offline at any moment. The pulpit is still in your hands.
"We can't afford another platform."
Our Church Starter plan is built for small budgets. Most churches we work with replace at least one line item — translation receivers, contracted translators, or a software subscription — when they switch to MOD.
Why we build this
"And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance... and each one heard them speaking in his own language."
— Acts 2:4, 6
Pentecost wasn’t a stunt. It was a strategy. The room was built for everyone to hear, in their own language, at the same time. MOD Translate is a small modern instrument pointed at the same ancient outcome.
Open the door the rest of the way.
We'll help you run a free live test in your own service. Twenty minutes of setup; a Sunday no one in the room will forget.