Sermon LaneThe preacher preaches
A laptop in the booth takes the feed from your sound desk. Nothing changes on the platform.
Missions here at home
The sermon in their language. In the preacher's own voice.
Your visitors and members who think in Spanish, Korean, Portuguese or Ukrainian scan a code, pick their language, and hear today's message live in an earbud — as it's preached, a few seconds behind.
No app to install. Any phone. One laptop in the sound booth.
Live · Español
Abran sus Biblias conmigo en Juan, capítulo diez.
Jesús dijo: «Yo soy el buen pastor».
Fíjense que no dice que el pastor busca ovejas perfectas…
How it works
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From the pulpit to an earbud in about three seconds.
Sermon Lane translates
Each phrase is transcribed, translated into every language you offer, and spoken in the preacher's recreated voice.
Listeners hear it live
They scan the code in the bulletin or on the screen, choose a language, and listen. Captions follow along.
Faithful translation
What was preached, nothing softened, nothing added.
Sermon Lane is told to translate exactly what the preacher said — the hard words along with the comforting ones — in his own first-person, spoken style. It doesn't summarize or explain.
- Scripture as your people read it. Choose the Bible each language quotes from — Reina-Valera 1960, 개역개정, Almeida and others.
- Your church's words. A glossary keeps ministry names, people and places right every Sunday.
- Captions with the voice. Every phrase appears on screen, so a listener can read along or listen with captions only.
- A transcript afterward. Each service is kept as text in every language, for follow-up and for the church's records.
The preacher's voice
It sounds like your pastor, because it's his voice.
A few minutes of a past sermon is enough to recreate the preacher's voice in other languages. A visitor hears their own pastor's warmth and cadence, not a stranger's.
Part of Missionary Lane
Missions abroad, and missions in your pews.
Sermon Lane comes from the team behind Missionary Lane, the virtual gallery of the missionaries a church supports. Churches on Missionary Lane sign in with the same login, and the same two-step security.
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≈3 sbehind the pulpit
0apps to install
Questions
What do we need in the sound booth?
A laptop with Chrome or Edge and a feed from the sound desk — a small USB audio interface works best. The laptop's built-in microphone works for a trial.
Do listeners need data or Wi-Fi?
Yes, a phone connection or the church Wi-Fi. The audio is small — about 30 MB for a 40-minute sermon.
How accurate is it?
Very good for clear speech, and it improves with the glossary of your church's names and terms. It is machine translation: we say so on the listener's screen, and every transcript is kept so you can review it.
Will it keep up with a fast preacher?
Yes. Long runs without a pause are broken into phrases, and if a listener's voice falls behind it gently speeds up to catch the preacher.
Who can hear it?
Anyone with the service's code. Codes change every service. The translated audio is kept for as long as you choose, from deleting it when the service ends up to a year.
Be one of the first churches.
We're opening Sermon Lane to a small group of churches first. Tell us your church, the languages your people speak, and your service times.
Request early access