Anglican Church in North America Announces New Canon for Provincial and Global Mission

The Anglican Church in North America announced The Venerable Dr. Jon (Jack) Lumanog as the new Canon for Provincial and Global Mission. In his new role, Canon Lumanog will be the chief programmatic officer of the Anglican Church in North America assisting Archbishop Duncan in carrying out the mission of the Province, both domestically and with international Anglican mission partners.

“Canon Jack Lumanog will bring tremendous gifts and energy to the work of building the Province together. In his own history are the three streams of our Church life, a fact which strongly draws him to our vision for a biblical, missionary and united Anglicanism in North America. I look forward to his joining me as a ‘right hand’ in the mission of reaching out with the transforming love of Jesus Christ both domestically and abroad,” said the Most Rev. Robert Duncan, Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in North America.

Canon Lumanog most recently served as church planter and the first rector of Christ the King Anglican Church in Lansing, Michigan. He also serves as the clergy formation advisor for the Heart of North America Region of the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA). While planting Christ the King in Lansing, Canon Lumanog was involved in campus ministry at Michigan State University and was elected twice as president of the Religious Advisors Association where he worked with the officially recognized campus ministries in the Christian and Jewish traditions. He also was active in ministry in the areas of church planting and acts of service to those hit hardest by the economic crisis in the Mid-Michigan region.

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It is noteworthy that this article does no report by whom Canon Lumanog was appointed and under what provisions of the ACNA canons, he was appointed. The ACNA make no provisions for the establishment of the office of canon at the provincial level or for appointments to such an office. This appears to be another example of the failure of the ACNA top leaders to operate within the provisions of the church's canons but to treat the canons as a mandate to do what they please. They are creating an organizational culture in the ACNA that will create problems in the church in the not too distant future, if not in the present. Here again the issue is not the Rev. Lumanog's qualifications but the way things are done in the ACNA.