Peoria Church Deploys Live, Translated Captions

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Matthew J. Lucio

Assistant to the President for Communication

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The Illinois Conference has long been known as a diverse demographic hub in America. In 1916, Pacific Press decided to build a foreign-language press in Brookfield, owing to their estimates that the majority of non-English speakers in America lived within 800 miles of Chicago.

Since then, our congregations have only grown more diverse. The Peoria congregation has come across an interesting way to make cross-cultural communication easier: They set up a screen during worship whereby a speaker will be translated and transcribed in real-time from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.

Here's a video explaining how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1rzMkR1RVo

NEXT STEPS

If your church has found a creative way to make worship accessible across different languages, let me know at communication@ilcsda.org.

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Please send any news items of what God is doing around the Illinois Conference to communication@ilcsda.org.