Everyone in the room. In their own language.
“Thanks for visiting my website. If your congregation is anything like ours was, there are people sitting in your services right now who can only watch and listen — following along at a distance, in a language that isn’t theirs.
I know, because reaching them was my responsibility — and my passion. Before I started MyOpenDoor, I was the customer: I ran another translation service every Sunday for a couple of years. At its best, it was great. But some weeks it was slow, maybe a little off the mark. Above all, it was one-dimensional: it let our people listen, and that was all. It never let them belong.
I wanted to give them the whole experience — so we built one. When we say this was built by pastors, that part is true. But it was built for listeners.”
— Charles Minton, Founder, MyOpenDoor
Try it live · the actual product
Scan to listen
This screen plays the English source. Your phone plays the Spanish translation.
Scan the QR with your phone first — pick Spanish in standby — then click Start. Both screens go live together.
MODVOICE — our proprietary engine
We built our own engine. Here’s why that matters.
MODVOICE is the anchor — a proprietary engine of purpose-written algorithms, built for live speech from the first line. Built for speed, with redundancy designed in — and one intention above everything: be accurate to what was actually said.
- 1 Your church or event — logo & branding
- 2 Live schedule with countdown
- 3 Spoken voice or captions — each listener picks
- 4 Notes after the service
- 5 Their language, live as it’s spoken
- 6 The speaker’s actual words — source shown right beneath
- 7 Never lost — bubbles, not a wall of text
- 8 Word-by-word highlight follows the voice — you always know where the message is.
MODVOICE — the engine underneath. Everything above runs on our proprietary engine: fighting for what was said · built for speed · redundancy designed in.
Everyone else resells someone else’s engine. MODVOICE is ours — built for exactly this, and sharpened against real live services every single week.
The problem
Some hear every word. Others hear only the sounds.
They sit in your pews, they lift their hands, they come back week after week. But without language access, they’re watching your church through a window — present in body, absent in understanding.
That’s not the church you’re building.
The solution — the open door
More than a translation. A way to belong.
MyOpenDoor Translate can help you create an immersive experience for your current members or your guests who need translation.
It’s one thing to be in the room and listen. It’s a whole other experience to be in the room and feel a part of the service with intention.
What every guest receives
A screen that feels like home.
Most translation tools stop at the words. We designed every screen a guest touches — notes, announcements, decision moments, captions and voice — to feel effortless in their language.
You pick the languages — the page builds itself.
Sermon Notes Hub
They came to hear the message. They leave with it.
After the service, every listener opens their phone to a full sermon-notes page — in their language. Not a raw transcript: a carefully formed summary with the scriptures and their references, the most memorable lines, and bullet-point takeaways they can hold onto all week. A button to share it with a friend, your church’s links, your address and service times — all translated and waiting.
For someone who has never fully followed a sermon before, this page is the first time the message was truly theirs.
Announcements
Nothing gets lost in translation. Nothing.
Volunteer signups, the new series, Thursday’s prayer night — your announcements are auto-translated and pushed to every listener’s phone during service, and rotate on the lobby display in multiple languages at once. No one misses what’s next because of the language barrier.
Your whole church communicates. With your whole church.
From the booth: one tap shows the card on every screen — each phone in its own language.
Interactive cards
A moment on every screen — and a way to respond.
A card is whatever the moment needs: a decision at the altar call, a connection card for a first-time guest, a quick poll, an RSVP. You push it to every listener’s phone at exactly the right time — translated into each person’s language, with the captions still visible above it. It becomes part of the message, not an interruption, and every response comes back to you.
From “I say yes to Jesus” to “How can we pray for you?” — invite a response, in every language.
Live captions & spoken voice
Every word, the moment you speak it.
As you preach, your words become live captions on every listener’s screen — in their language, in real time. Those who’d rather hear it choose a natural spoken voice. Those who want both, get both.
Live captions in 190+ languages. Spoken voice in 60+. Every seat covered from the first sentence.
The listener experience
It feels like your church made it just for them.
Every listener’s screen is branded with your church — your name, your colors, your identity. They open their phone, choose their language, and they’re in — looking at your church, not a generic third-party interface.
That experience of being known is the difference between attending and belonging.
Built for ministry
Every word. Never paraphrased.
Translation in a spiritual setting is sacred work. A paraphrase can change the meaning of a scripture; a shortcut can miss the pastor’s intent entirely. So we built translation that fixes how the words were heard — and never changes what was said.
- ✓ A sentence the recognizer split in half? We rejoin it.
- ✓ A capital letter it missed? We put it back.
- ✓ An “uhh” between two thoughts? We remove the filler.
- ✓ A pastor who pauses to find the next word? We wait — we never finish his sentence for him.
If the speaker rambles, or trails off, or misspeaks — we carry it across exactly as it was said.
Built specifically for ministry language — honoring scripture references, theological terms, and the weight of the words being spoken. Your message comes through exactly, not approximately.
Simple to run
Three steps. That’s the whole thing.
Guests scan a QR code, choose their language, and follow along. If you can run a Sunday service, you can run this.
You speak
Preach, teach, or lead worship exactly like you always do. One microphone is all we need.
We translate
As you talk, your words become each guest’s language — on-screen captions, a spoken voice, or both.
They follow along
Guests scan a QR code and listen on their own phone — captions, audio, or both.
Planning your first Sunday? Read the step-by-step guide: how to translate a church service in real time.
The moment
María had been coming to her church for six months. She knew the worship, recognized the faces, came back every Sunday — but she had always been just slightly outside the room, catching the words she knew and guessing at the rest.
Last Sunday, she opened her phone and found the sermon notes waiting for her. The scriptures her pastor read, written out in Spanish. The line he said near the end — the one the whole room responded to — was there in her language, exactly as he said it. There was a button that said Share this with a friend. She sent it to her cousin.
For the first time, she didn’t feel like a guest who had been accommodated. She felt like a member of the church who had received something made for her.
That is the open door.
- 190+ languages
- Live captions — spoken voice in 60+
- No app to download
- Guests scan a QR code and join
- Captions + voice
- Read it, hear it, or both
- Accurate translation
- Every word — never paraphrased
Who it’s for
One platform. Every room that speaks more than one language.
Built first for churches — and just as at home wherever people gather across a language barrier.
Churches & congregations
Every Sunday, every sermon, every person in the room — fully present in their own language.
Multi-campus networks
One translation infrastructure across every campus. Consistent, scalable, ready for your fastest-growing locations.
Conferences & summits
From breakout rooms to main stage — every attendee in the conversation, every session captured with translated notes.
Healthcare & education
Meet Section 1557 language-access requirements with live translation that’s compliant, consistent, and easy to deploy.
Languages
190+ languages, and counting.
Live captions in 190+ languages, with natural spoken voice in 60+ — from the moment you speak to the words on their phone. New languages added on request.
Don’t see yours? Email us — most can be added in a couple of days.
Case study — a real church, every week
Cape Vineyard Church runs this every service.
“We're so happy and thrilled to be partnering with MyOpenDoor Translate. They've given us so much more than just being able to translate — they've allowed our listeners to engage more with what's going on in the service. Our Spanish listeners have commented so much about the change.”
— Cape Vineyard Church staff · Cape Coral, Florida
Every Sunday morning and every Thursday Dinner Church: guests scan the lobby QR code and follow the whole service in their own language — captions, natural spoken voice, or both. No headsets, no app, no new equipment.
Read the Cape Vineyard case study →In their words
What it sounds like from the inside.
Illustrative — written from what the platform actually does. We’ll swap in real voices as churches come online.
“For years our Spanish-speaking families caught maybe half of what I said. The first Sunday we turned this on, one of them stopped me afterward — she’d heard the whole message, in Spanish, exactly as I preached it. We didn’t change a single word. We just stopped leaving people out.”
“I used to lose the thread halfway through and just guess at the rest. Now the notes are waiting on my phone after the service — the summary, the verses, the line everyone reacted to — in Spanish. I send it to my sister every week.”
“I scan the code, choose Portuguese, and I’m in. Captions when I want to read along, the voice in my ear when I close my eyes — and it keeps playing with my phone in my pocket. For the first time I’m not watching the service. I’m part of it.”
“I was sure this would be one more thing for my volunteers to wrestle with. It isn’t. We start the service, everyone scans a code, and even the announcements and the response card show up on every phone in their own language. It just runs.”
The door is already open. Bring everyone through it.
Run a free live test in your own service. We’ll help you set it up in 20 minutes — the trial is free, no obligation to continue, no tech background required.