Leadership

Bobby has had many roles throughout his career. He is talented musician and helps our parish schedule folks for liturgy each Sunday as well as band. Bobby spent many years offering pastoral counseling in church settings, working as a professional musician, and in the audio/visual world. He is currently with Sage Hill and has holds a Master degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. When he isn’t cheering on the Green Bay Packers, you can find him with his three boys playing or watching basketball and football.

With experience in nonprofit work, customer service and the music industry, Brandon’s main focus has always been people and he is most energized when engaging with or helping others. An Organizational Communication graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, His minor in Leadership Studies and certification in Experiential Learning find him constantly exploring new opportunities for growth, development and servant leadership. Few things make Brandon happier than doing things with excellence or doing work that contributes to others’ well-being. Always armed with a joke or a laugh, Brandon loves to spread positivity and optimism wherever he goes.

The Very Reverend Chad E. Jarnagin is the founding Vicar of Luminous Parish. He was ordained priest in 2015. He has a Master Certificate, M.A. Biblical Studies, a Master of Divinity, and will eventually pursue doctoral work. Chad is a Certified Enneagram Teacher and Spiritual Director. He is also the author of the book, Learning to Be: Reconstructing Peace & Spiritual Health (Morgan James Publishing). Member of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (2003-2009). Chad has more than 30 years of experience as pastor, musician, researcher, and writer. His holy orders of ordination are held in the Anglican Free Fellowship of America with Archbishop Edward Vaughan where he also serves as Canon to the Ordinary.

He and his wife Jennifer, an educator, have three sons and live in Franklin, TN.

Deacon Colin Fagan holds both an MA in Conflict Management and Master of Divinity from of Lipscomb University. Theological ethics grabs a lot of his attention particularly around adoption and the formation of adoptees within the believing community. This work has also led him to experience the rich Christian tradition of Spiritual Direction and Friendship particularly of the Jesuit sort. He is captivated by Jesus sharing so intimately in human life that he would invite us into friendship with himself. This deep companioning in all seasons and situations of life knows no bounds or conditions. Consequently, Colin enjoys holding space and journeying alongside those who find themselves in seasons and conditions of life that cause deep questions of God and existence to bubble up.

He was ordained as a vocational deacon in 2020 and is a part of the Diocese of Saint Anthony in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches. He is currently editing a book on adoption that he hopes will offer constructive pathways for how the church understands and participates in this most important ethical activity.

He and his wife, Gretchen, have two kids and live in Thompsons Station, TN.

The Reverend R. Heath McClure is an assisting priest at Luminous and is the founding minister of Saint Francis Mission, a rag-tag communion of sinners, saints, believers, & skeptics, imagining a more inclusive & holistic way of practicing faith.

Heath graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a degree in history and philosophy. He is an ordained Anglican priest. In preparation for ordination to the diaconate, he completed directed studies under his mentor (of Blessed Memory), The Right Reverend Lucien Lindsey, Suffragan Bishop of the South in the Episcopal Missionary Church. Heath was ordained priest in 2017 and is a part of the Diocese of St. Patrick in the Anglican Free Fellowship of America.

Heath is a lover of books, friendship, conversations and bringing people together. He is also a life-long lover of his hero in the faith: Fred Rogers (of Blessed Memory). Heath is often found daydreaming of a day when every neighborhood is one of acceptance, love, and peace. He is convinced that Jesus came to bring this about. On earth as it is in heaven.

He and his wife, Shannon, a personal trainer, have four children and live in Franklin, TN.

Monica is a priest with the Anglican Free Fellowship, Diocese of St. Patrick. She is a graduate of Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and serves as a volunteer chaplain and spiritual advisor to the men in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. In addition to prison ministry, Monica has a heart for spiritual care, Godly Play, EfM (Education for Ministry), liturgy and ancient rhythms, mysticism, hummingbirds, JRR Tolkien, and the rescue (hoarding) of books. You will sometimes find her crocheting at Saint Francis Mission on Sunday evenings.

Monica and her husband, Sean, are originally from New Jersey and are now retired and living on a small farm in Franklin with a menagerie of horses, a donkey, cows, chickens, and cats. Two of their children, Katie and Nicholas, live with them; their oldest son Andrew lives in Spring Hill.

Paula Rohrer and her husband Russ have been with Luminous Anglican for the past several years. She has worked with children and youth in some capacity for over twenty years. Even before accepting the position of Luminous KiDS Curate, you would have found her in the midst of the kids, on purpose, for one reason or another. She has an honest love for listening to children and walking with them through their understanding of God’s love for them. A native of Southern California, Paula works professionally in the Hospitality Appraisal and Consulting industry. She and Russ live in the College Grove area and have fully embraced this season of enjoying their three adult children and their dog Charlie.