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The Church Interpreting Podcast
Learning together how to create and maintain multilingual churches
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7. Episode 28: Curiosity, Welcome, and Helping EVERYONE Flourish
58:36||Season 3, Ep. 7This month, Jonathan interviews Peter Bates, who has dedicated his life to helping people of all backgrounds find community and welcome. He talks about his career working in the care sector, training care staff to think differently about how to help people with long-term mental health issues. We then explored how this informed his survey of how churches in his city are using machine translation and why interpreting in church has to go beyond just making sure people understand.
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6. Episode 27: AI, Machine Interpreting and Church
59:17||Season 3, Ep. 6This month, Lauryn and Jonathan interview Chris Lim, founder of spf.io, an all-in-one language platform for churches. We ask about their guidelines for using machine interpreting in church, what that might mean for the future of human interpreters, how human interpreters can benefit from spf.io and what it takes for churches to use languages well.5. Episode 26: Why do we interpret?
13:59||Season 3, Ep. 5This month, Lauryn and Jonathan answer the really simple question: why do we interpret? On the way, we think through why church interpreting and any interpreting matters, how it is part of God's plan and why it is important to keep thinking through our reasons for doing what we do.4. Episode 25: Nurturing Interpreters, Nurturing Interpreting
15:26||Season 3, Ep. 4In this month's episode, Lauryn explains how to identify and nurture possible interpreters and Jonathan gives us the truth about what to do if the interpreting in your church is boring.3. Episode 24: Preparation and Practice
18:36||Season 3, Ep. 3This month, Lauryn walks through how to prepare to interpret in church while Jonathan explains how to practice between assignments.For more information on multilingual church, go to ChurchInterpreting.com.For interpreting and consulting, go to IntegrityLanguages.co.uk.2. Episode 23: Small church, lots of languages
14:02||Season 3, Ep. 2In this episode, Lauryn and Jonathan tackle that tricky question: What can small churches do if they have people with lots of different first languages?For more free resources, go to churchinterpreting.comIf you are looking for personal help with languages in your church, contact Jonathan here: https://integritylanguages.co.uk/contact/1. Episode 22: Shouldn't people just speak English?
11:06||Season 3, Ep. 1This season, we're answering questions about multilingual church and church interpreting. In this episode, we start with "When should churches start expecting people to just use English?"Also, right in the middle of the episode, Jonathan lets you know about a new service to help churches who are looking to become multilingual or who want to improve what they are already offering. For more information, email Jonathan here: https://integritylanguages.co.uk/contact/