Bishop Rance Allen (born November 19, 1948) is an American pastor and gospel musician, and the founder and leader of the Rance Allen Group. He has been pastor of New Bethel Church Of God In Christ in Toledo, since its July 1985 establishment. In November 2011, Rance Allen was elevated to the office of Bishop in the Church of God in Christ, for the Michigan Northwestern Harvest Jurisdiction.Allen was born in 1948 in Monroe, Michigan to Thomas and Emma Pearl Allen.