Destiny Church's haka group has been invited to perform at the Washington DC 50th anniversary commemorations of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's seismic I have a Dream speech.
Bernice King, daughter of the civil rights leader wrote to Bishop Brian Tamaki and his wife Hannah last week to ask if Destiny would take "Maori dancers" to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
It was from there On August 28 1963 the African American churchman delivered one of the defining speeches of the 20th century to 250,000 on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The memorial became a pulpit where Dr King preached: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character."
Destiny leader Bishop Brian Tamaki said the invitation came from the civil rights' leader's daughter Bernice King who Mr Tamaki met in Atlanta, with her mother Coretta Scott King ten years ago.