On January 1, 2007, Tony married Rev. Clare Watson Chance.  They share four daughters.  Tony is the proud father of two grown daughters: Devon, a seventh grade teacher in Rockville, Md.; and Lauren, who has completed her Master of Divinity Degree at Duke and is now serving Park HIll United Methodist Church in Denver.  Clare's daughters, Lela and Emily, are college students at F.S.U. and Wake Forest. 

The Chances are also obnoxiously proud grandparents of Lincoln, who is one and a half, Miller, just born in November, and Carter, who made his entrance the first of February. 
Tony and Clare and their two dogs live in the Conway area of Orlando in the parsonage provided by Broadway United Methodist Church, where Clare serves as pastor.

You can email Tony at tonychance@bellsouth.net.

Tony Chance has been performing in a variety of locations around the world for over 40 years, delighting his audiences with wonderful music, theatrics and humor.  Tony was still a teenager when he began singing at Al Hirt's place in the French Quarter of New Orleans... he played and sang in Las Vegas, London, New York and Florida... Tony performed with stars like Don Rickles, Jackie Gleason, Mike Douglas, Frankie Ford, the list goes on and on. 

But in 1995, Tony gave up the bright lights to answer a different calling when he began the process of becoming a pastor.  Tony completed his formal theological education at Duke University Divinity School and was commissioned by the United Methodist Church as a pastor in 1998.  He served as the Pastor of Worship and the Arts at Christ Church United Methodist in Fort Lauderdale until his appointment this year as the senior pastor of Azalea Park United Methodist Church in Orlando.

While you can take the pastor out of the performance, you cannot take performing out of the pastor...  Tony has continued his evangelical outreach in supper clubs and other secular venues, even while he has continued to use his gifts in preaching and teaching. 

The Tony Chance Music Ministry offers Tony another way to reach out to share Jesus' love, especially with folks who feel far from God. 

Tony travels to churches around the state with a self-contained worship concert.  The message is simple, but life-changing-- a description of grace that can be heard and embraced by people who might never step foot into a regular church service.