Diversity Dinner Night : A Glimpse of Heaven
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Date: 6th March 2026
I recently attended the Diversity Dinner night at the Pan Pacific, where Churches and Christians from over 40 different nations came together as one united Body in Perth, Western Australia.
We were encouraged to wear our own traditional dresses to the dinner, so I wore my Chinese Cheongsam.
The night started off with a Welcome to Country by an Aboriginal Christian family.
I confess that, in the past, when I was in secular spaces and heard the Welcome to Country, it felt very much like empty lip-service. It felt like something the instituition had mandated us to sit through as a way to make up for their wrongdoings of the past.
However, in comparison, at this Diversity Dinner night, the Welcome to Country felt authentic and powerful. The Aboriginal Christian family played the Digeridoo and gave a speech. The Aboriginal Speaker shared about how we are all One in Christ Jesus, and that Australia is the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit.
You can watch the Welcome to Country below:
To me, this just proved that the Bible is correct - in that the Bible declares that unless we have a reconciled relationship the True Creator God, we cannot be able to have a reconciled relationship with one another.
In that room, though we comprised of over 40 nations of different ethnic groups, we were all united, as our One God united us all.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ - the Gospel of forgiveness, love, reconciliation and peace was alive in the room that night. Humanity reconciled FIRST to God through the Cross, and then SECONDLY, reconciled to each other through God:
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
And then after the Welcome to Country, we all worshiped Jesus Christ our Lord together. It was like looking at a glimpse of heaven. The scene and atmosphere in the room reminded me of the verse below:
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Revelation 7:9
We worshipped our God in the various languages He created. We sang to Christ in Chinese, Indonesian, Dzongkha, Farsi (Persian) and so forth.
It reminded me that God's creation tells us about the invisible qualities of God Himself. We can see that from His Creation that He is a creative and diverse God. Creative and diverse in colour, design, intricacy, music - and the list goes on. God is more than just Creator and Engineer. He is clearly Artist.
For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse.
Romans 1:20
It was a fantastic and memorable night, one I will not be forgetting any time soon.
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