Gospel music star Bishop Rance Allen died Saturday morning. He was 71.
« I wasn’t expecting to hear this news this morning, » Bryant Scott, the president of Allen’s record label, Tyscot Records, said in the statement. « This is a great loss to us personally but also to the church community at large. » After being ordained in 1978, Rance Allen served more than six years as an associate pastor of Holiness Temple Church of God In Christ (COGIC) in Monroe, Michigan.
