We had a small team who had the scripts in advance and were rendering it, live, in their own language.”Ĭathedral member Adrian Ng was co-ordinator of the translation broadcast. “We were nervous about it, but it worked really, really well. He adds that the translation technology was a first for the cathedral. Many of those who were being baptised or confirmed were conversions from the last two years.” “It was proof positive that God had been at work even during the difficult COVID season. “We waited because of COVID – we've waited 2½ years since the last one – so it was great to make it happen again,” Mr Ould says. The annual event had been interrupted by the pandemic so everyone was grateful to be back. But God in his kindness caused it to clear, so we were all able to get outside right at the end and do all the immersion baptisms outdoors in a wonderful break in the weather.” “So we started indoors and then had the overflows watching the livestream video. “On the day we actually got rained on,” he says. 35 people were baptised or confirmedĪccording to the cathedral’s senior assistant minister, the Rev David Ould, the beginning of the event was not promising. There were more than 35 baptism and confirmation candidates, with hundreds inside the cathedral and in the square outside. This year, a team of translators used a phone app called LiveVoice to simultaneously broadcast Mandarin, Cantonese and Farsi translations of the English language livestream. The cathedral has a celebration each year when its congregations join together, but until now it has been solely in English. It wasn’t exactly the Day of Pentecost, but a celebration of baptisms and confirmations last month at St John’s Cathedral, Parramatta was all the more joyful thanks to new live-translation technology.
When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken (Acts 2:5-6). Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
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