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With growing importance of community interpreters in line with the increased cross-border migration around the globe and the development of sophisticated translation tools, the distinction between professional, or trained interpreters, and non-professional interpreters is becoming vague. While many call for the need to redefine the relationship, there is still a subtle yet widespread tension between the two groups of interpreters. Against this backdrop, this paper looks into sermon interpreting and argues that sermon interpreters and professional interpreters, though different in strength and approaches, can have a productive relationship. An actual case of collaboration between two sermon interpreters and six professionally trained interpreters took place at the Call2all Congress Korea 2016, which was held in Korea for five days from June 27 to July 1, 2016. The event which provided consecutive interpreting service confirmed that both groups can complement and learn from each other. For example, professional interpreters can learn the effective delivery skill of sermon interpreters, including verbal and non-verbal communication factors, while sermon interpreters can learn the code of conduct for professional interpreters.