Pancake Pride 2025 - An ecumenical celebration of queer faith!

Rainbow Christians Together is delighted to invite you to an evening of community and fellowship - with delicious pancakes, wonderful music, moving reflections and fabulous people from across Sydney's diverse Christian traditions and cultures. This year, we will be hosted at our siblings' at St Stephen's Uniting Church + Crave Metropolitan Community Church. Registration and entry is free, all welcome. 

We ask for your generous support through donation if you are able to, via this registration or on the day of entry to this event. Donations will help make organizing this event possible, defray costs and help us build our collective efforts in making Sydney a flourishing LGBTIQA+ community of love and faith.

For logistical, safety and security purposes, we request for people to kindly register RSVP by COB 3rd March 2025.

Rainbow Christians Together is proudly organised with members and leaders from Sydney's Metropolitan Community Churches, Uniting, Anglican, Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Baptist, Quaker, Presbyterian, Orthodox, Eastern Christian, Lutheran, etc Christian traditions, as well as LGBTIQA+ led faith communities and organisations such as Acceptance Sydney LGBTIQA+ Catholics, MCC Crave + MCC Sydney + MCC Good Shepherd, Uniting Network, Equal Voices Sydney, Rainbow Catholics Interagency Australia, ABBI, New City Church and others.

We are an ecumenical collective bringing together faith-led communities and organisations around the Sydney region, celebrating the gifts and giftedness of LGBTIQA+ Christians in our diverse Christian communities, affirming our faith and flourishing for the Gospel.

If you and your church community are interested in supporting our efforts, please contact lead organisers Benjamin Oh and Ken Day via benjamin@equalvoices.org.au

A little history: Rainbow Christians Together emerged soon after Sydney, Australia, was announced as the host city for WorldPride 2023 in 2022. Benjamin Oh and Josephine Inkpin—National Co-Chairs of Equal Voices, the national ecumenical movement of Christians committed to the dignity and flourishing of LGBTIQA+ people—began organising in earnest for the international event. Their aim was to bring together faith leaders and organisers to ensure accessible, safe, inclusive, and celebratory spaces, resources and events for LGBTIQA+ people of faith throughout the month-long program. As there was no resources and funding available for faith groups and organisations hosting events World Pride Faith https://www.worldpridefaith.com.au/ was established to ensure that LGBTIQA+ people of faith has a hub to access support, resources and information for the festival.

For the Christian community, the Queer Christian Roundtable for WorldPride was established and hosted events in Sydney under the banner Rainbow Christians Together. In addition to the Pancake Pride Ecumenical Celebration, these initiatives included participation in the Mardi Gras and Pride Marches, a public lecture, various prayer services, the Amplify Queer Faith (and ally) Interfaith Photo Exhibition (including an online exhibition for those who can't come to Sydney www.amplifyqueerfaith.com.au ), Fair Day Stall - Blessings + Outreach, the Queer Lights & Angels lantern-making workshop, and a Thanksgiving Mass for the LGBTIQA+ community.

Rainbow Christians Together is grounded in following the teachings of Jesus, seeking to embody a prophetic vision of radical love, equity, justice, equality, and hospitality, lived out as one Christian family in the spirit of ecumenism.