For Churches & Houses of Worship
Translate your sermon into Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, and more — in real time, as you preach. Then stream it, archive it, and reach the members who couldn't make it in person.
No juggling YouTube, a separate translator, and another tool for your VOD library. One platform. Every Sunday.
The Problem
Multilingual churches piece together four different tools and still can't serve their whole congregation live. Non-English-speaking members sit through a service they can't follow, or simply stop coming.
A growing Spanish-speaking or immigrant congregation can't fully participate when your sermon is in English only. Translation shouldn't require a dedicated interpreter room.
YouTube strips your content of context, suggests competing videos, and gives you no control. Members who miss a Sunday deserve a clean, searchable on-demand library.
YouTube for streaming. Vimeo for archives. A translation service. A ticketing tool for your Easter concert. Every Sunday is a production coordination exercise.
The Killer Feature
As you preach in English, viewers select their language and hear the message in real time — Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, and more. No interpreter room. No separate audio track to manage. No delay that breaks the experience.
For translated services, stream via the Studio webcam interface directly from your browser — no encoder software required. Translation runs on the Studio (WebRTC) rail. Broadcast/RTMP is great for general HLS streaming but does not support live translation.
Riverbend's translation engine transcribes your speech, translates it, and delivers a natural-sounding voice in each enabled language — under 3 seconds of latency.
Each viewer selects their preferred language from a menu in the player. Spanish speakers hear Spanish. Mandarin speakers hear Mandarin. Everyone follows the same sermon live.
Live captions in each language appear below the video for viewers who prefer to read along — useful in noisy environments and for accessibility.
Example: 1-hour Sunday sermon, 2 languages
English → Spanish + Mandarin, 80 peak viewers
Per-language rate: $39/hr per language (solo pastor, one-way). Audience: $0.5/peak viewer for up to 4 hrs. One-time account activation: $99.
Supported languages include
Built for Every Sunday
Small plant church or multi-campus congregation — there's a plan that fits. Recurring monthly billing, cancel anytime. No per-event fees, no juggling credits.
Broadcast Free — Start today
Perfect for small congregations trying a single Sunday service. No credit card, no commitment.
Broadcast — For growing churches
Every Sunday, multiple services, larger congregations. 20 streaming hours per month — stream via OBS or any RTMP encoder.
Studio — interactive WebRTC — required for live translation
Live AI sermon translation runs on the Studio rail — your pastor streams via webcam (LiveKit WebRTC), and the translation engine delivers a real-time translated voice to every viewer in their language. Broadcast (RTMP/HLS) does not support live translation.
Live AI translation requires the Studio plan ($129/mo) — translation runs on WebRTC/webcam sessions, not Broadcast HLS. Translation usage add-on: $39/hr per language, $99 one-time account activation, $0.5/peak viewer. PPV for special events: 20% of ticket sales (free to run, no subscription needed).
Platform Features
Built to match how churches actually stream — not how a sports broadcaster imagines they do.
The flagship feature — your sermon delivered in real time in every viewer's language. Under 3 seconds of latency. Natural-sounding voice, not robotic text-to-speech. Live captions included in every language.
OBS, vMix, webcam, or any RTMP encoder. Works with your existing AV setup — no new hardware required to go live every Sunday.
Every service records automatically. Members who missed Sunday find it on-demand. Build a growing library — no manual uploads, no separate hosting account.
Moderated live chat, slow mode, and Q&A mode for congregation questions. Your volunteer moderator controls the room from the same dashboard.
Create your 9am and 11am services as separate sessions under one event. Each gets its own stream and its own recording. No juggling different platforms per service.
Easter concert, Christmas concert, guest preacher, fundraiser event. Sell access via PPV — viewers pay at checkout, Stripe deposits into your account. You keep 80% of every ticket. No subscription required to sell a paid event.
Stream from your main campus to satellite locations — or to homes globally. One stream, every location, same service. Translated audio per campus if needed.
Your church gets a public page at riverbend.live/yourchurch — all upcoming services, past sermons, and special events. The link your bulletin sends members to every week.
Who It's For
Whether you serve 50 families or 5,000, Riverbend Live fits how you actually worship — not how a generic streaming platform thinks you should.
Multilingual Congregations
Your English-speaking pastor, your Spanish-speaking congregation, your Mandarin-speaking visitors — everyone follows the same message live, in their own language. No interpreter room, no separate service.
Homebound & Remote Members
Elderly members who can't travel. Young families with sick children. Members in other states. They remain part of the congregation — participating in live chat, watching the service, accessing the archive.
Multi-Campus Churches
Stream your main service to satellite campuses and remote households simultaneously. Campus screens show the same service. Translated audio plays per-location if needed. Everyone worships together.
Special Events & Concerts
Easter concert, Christmas musical, guest revival. Sell PPV tickets to families who live across the country. No need to set up Eventbrite plus a streaming service — it's all in one place.
Simple Enough for Volunteers
No broadcast engineering degree required. Most churches are live their first Sunday after setup.
Sign up, create your church page, and configure your service schedule. Under ten minutes before you have a shareable link ready for your congregation.
Enable translation for any combination of languages. Your congregation members set their preference once — it saves for every future service.
For translated services, hit go in the Studio webcam interface — translation starts automatically. Members watch in their language, join chat, and access the VOD after the service ends. Non-translated services can stream via OBS/RTMP on the Broadcast plan.
We Help You Get Set Up
We've helped churches with everything from a single laptop camera to full multi-camera productions get streaming-ready. Email us and we'll walk your tech volunteer through setup.
Works with existing cameras
Broadcast: OBS, vMix, or any RTMP encoder
Translation (Studio): browser webcam, no encoder needed
Onboarding call available for translation setup
Common Questions
Very. The translation engine is trained on modern general language and performs well for spoken sermon content. For highly specialized theological vocabulary or specific scriptural quotations in uncommon dialects, we recommend a brief review pass — but for the vast majority of Sunday sermon content, quality is strong and improving continuously.
Translation is billed by usage, not by subscription. The rate is $39/hr per destination language for a solo pastor (one-way). A 1-hour sermon into 2 languages costs $78 in translation time, plus $0.5 per peak concurrent viewer in the translated audience. A typical small multilingual service runs $118–$60 per Sunday. There is a one-time $99 account activation to unlock the feature.
Yes. The VOD is recorded with translated audio tracks. Members who missed the live service can watch on demand in their preferred language — the same experience as the live version, available after the service ends.
YouTube does not offer live translation. YouTube's algorithm surfaces competing content after your video ends, and you have no control over who sees what next. With Riverbend Live, your congregation gets a dedicated channel — no ads, no competing videos, no algorithmic distractions. Your archive is organized as a sermon library, not a generic video feed.
No. Once translation is set up and languages are configured, going live activates translation automatically. The tech volunteer just starts the stream as usual. Viewers choose their language themselves from the player menu.
Translation is billed by usage, so there's no penalty for infrequent use. After the one-time activation fee, you only pay when you actually stream a translated event. PPV for a special event also needs no subscription — just the platform fee on ticket revenue.
Guides & Resources
Step-by-step setup for live AI sermon translation — what it costs and how to go live your first bilingual Sunday.
Read the guideA practical comparison of every church translation option — costs, setup, language coverage, and online reach.
Read the guideMinistry strategy for building an online presence that reaches every language group in your congregation.
Read the guideReady for This Sunday
Start free today. Your first Sunday service can be live in under ten minutes. Add translation whenever you're ready — no long-term commitment.
Questions before you start? support@riverbendmedia.com
Free tier included — no credit card required — first service live in 8 minutes