The Church Interpreting Podcast

This month, Lauryn explores the importance of the interpreter's stage presence and Jonathan asks hard questions about effort.As always, for more free resources for your church, go to ChurchInterpreting.com.You can also buy "Multilingual Church: Strategies for making disciples in all languages" from your local Christian bookshop or from here: https://missionbooks.org/products/multilingual-church

This month, Lauryn digs into Jonathan's brand new book and we discuss the differences between a church having people who speak different languages and it actually being multilingual. We also ask what it feels like to be a visitor at your church.You can buy Jonathan's new book here: https://missionbooks.org/products/multilingual-church

This month, we finish our interview with Betty Lewis, we talk practical tips and keeping focused on the in in hand.

On this Christmas special, Lauryn and Jonathan talk about how to interpret Christmas services effectively.As ever, for more information and advice, check out ChurchInterpreting.com

This month, Lauryn interviews conference and church interpreter, Betty Lewis, about how she got into church and professional interpreting, the skills that carry over,

This month, Lauryn and Jonathan answer questions about the basic skills church interpreters might need and touch on Bible translations, crying in front of patients, and demolition. This is the last in a series of episodes from our recent conversation on church interpreting.

Some preachers might be scared to work with interpreters since it could feel like interpreters will steal the attention. We discuss some good responses to this and laugh about how we are still interpreters even after the service is finished.

In this episode, Lauryn and Jonathan discuss how skills from church interpreting apply to commercial interpreting and vice-versa, Lauryn discusses the importance of prayer, and Jonathan talks about how experience changes your decision-making.

[Trigger warning: Grief, mental health, racism] On this episode, Lauryn talks about interpreting through grief, Jonathan discusses reasons why interpreting might not work in a church, and we have a quick tip with questions for you to answer about interpreting.As always, for further information or to request personalised support with church interpreting, visit: churchinterpreting.com.