Council Member Profile: Robert Dick

Robert Dick was born in 1943 in Caldwell, Idaho. His grandfather was the first to listen to The World Tomorrow in the early '50s and encouraged Mr. Dick's father to listen also.

In 1957, his father, Raymond, applied and was accepted to Ambassador College in Pasadena. He took his family with him and Bob attended Imperial High School for four years. Following high school he enrolled in Ambassador College, transferring to Bricket Wood, England, after his sophomore year.

The opportunity to visit in the homes of many members from central London to the English Channel and to preach in all the congregations of the Radio Church of God in England was a highlight of those two years.

Mr. Dick began corresponding during his junior year with Dyanne Moore, who was attending Ambassador in Pasadena. They were married following the Feast of Tabernacles in 1965.

After four months of ministerial training in South Bend, Indiana, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Dicks moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where Mr. Dick served as associate pastor for six months. His first full pastorate was in Mobile, Alabama, where both of their sons, Philip and Timothy, were born. Shortly after arriving he started the church in Geneva, Alabama.

Mr. Dick has since pastored Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; Elkhart, Plymouth and Michigan City, Indiana; Seattle, Bremerton, Everett and Federal Way, Washington; and Portland and Hood River, Oregon.

Mr. Dick has served in YOU administration as a district coordinator, and as regional coordinator for the Northeast, Great Lakes and Northwest. He has also served as a senior pastor in Columbus, Ohio, and as regional pastor for the Northwest.

One of the Dicks' greater ministerial pleasures was serving as a traveling speaker at the Feast of Tabernacles, providing an opportunity to meet and spend time with God's people in Europe, Africa, Canada, the Philippines and across the United States.

Mr. Dick has served on the Council of Elders for the last 12 years and currently serves as chairman. UN