Chance Blackmer is from La Grange, Texas. He met his wife, Tara, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and married in 2006. They have three children, Hayden, Lilah, and Charlotte. He graduated from the Southwest School of Bible Studies in Austin, Texas, in 2009. He received his B.A. in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin (’15) and his M.A. in New Testament at Freed-Hardeman University (’19). He also served in the U.S. Navy as a corpsman of Marines in Fallujah, Iraq, and Helmand, Afghanistan. In addition, he has served congregations in Texas, Delaware, Florida, and Georgia, and he assumed the work at Charlotte Avenue in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in April 2021.