Pancake Pride 2026 - 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, Shrove/Pancake Tuesday auspiciously falls on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and we will be hosted at our siblings' at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Sydney.

彩虹基督徒團契誠摯邀請您參加一個充滿團契與友誼的夜晚— 屆時將有美味的煎餅、美妙的音樂、感人的分享，以及來自悉尼多元基督教傳統和文化的朋友們相聚。我們非常榮幸能與您一同慶祝農曆新年第一天。

Hội Thánh Tin Lành Rainbow Christian Fellowship trân trọng kính mời quý vị đến tham dự một buổi tối tràn ngập tình thân hữu và tình bạn – những chiếc bánh kếp thơm ngon, âm nhạc tuyệt vời, những chia sẻ ấm áp, và những người bạn đến từ nhiều truyền thống và nền văn hóa Cơ Đốc giáo đa dạng của Sydney. Chúng tôi rất hân hạnh được cùng quý vị đón mừng ngày đầu tiên của Tết Nguyên Đán.

Registration and entry is free alongside a sweet pancake, All welcome. If you'd like a more substantial serve of a savoury pancake, you can pre-order for yourself/ves or pay it forward for someone who may not be able to afford it with a $8 donation in advance through your registration.

We ask for your generous support through donation if you are able to via this registration and on the day of entry to this event. Donations will help keep the organizing of this annual tradition 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 Sunday 8th February 2026.

Rainbow Christians Together is proudly organised with members and leaders from Sydney's Metropolitan Community Churches, Catholic, Uniting, Anglican, Charismatic, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Baptist, Quaker, Presbyterian, Seventh Day Adventist, Salvation Army, Orthodox, Melkite, Maronite, Lutheran, Eastern etc Christian traditions.

Rainbow Christians Together is an ecumenical collective bringing together organisations and leaders that are 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 unity in diversity whilst honouring our diverse Christian traditions and history. We gather from around the Sydney basin and work together to celebrate the history, flourishing, 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 Rainbow Christians Together Co-Chairs Benjamin Oh and Mikali Anagnostis via https://www.equalvoices.org.au/contact-us or hosting Church community leader Geoff Ivers via https://www.mccsydney.org/

We are expanding our ministries together with LGBTIQA+ led faith communities and Christian organisations such as Equal Voices, Metropolitan Community Churches, Rainbow Catholics Interagency Australia, New City Church, Uniting Church Pride Circle, Acceptance LGBT+ Catholics and many affirming others, including these supportive communities and organisations which you should check out:

Equal Voices

Metropolitan Community Church Sydney

Leichhardt Uniting Church

Rainbow Catholics Interagency Australia

New City Church

Acceptance Sydney LGBTIQA+ Catholics

St Stephen’s Uniting Church

Crave MCC

Pitt Street Uniting Church

Open Door Community of Christ

Neutral Bay Uniting Church

Good Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church Western Sydney

Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International (ABBI)

Rev Bill Crews Foundation - Ashfield Uniting Church

Illawara Rainbow Christians

Catholic Diocese of Parramatta LGBTIQA+ Outreach

Revesby Uniting Church

Wayside Chapel Kings Cross

South Sydney Uniting Church

Kiama Jamberoo Uniting Church

St Andrews Uniting Church Glenbrook

Gosford Anglican Church

St James King Street

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.