Dick was born in Paterson, NJ and raised in a Roman Catholic Family. He was converted to Jesus Christ when he was 22, in large part through the witness of several fellow U.S. Army officers at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, during the Vietnam War.
He took early retirement from his work as an accountant for the State of New Jersey to attend seminary and was ordained in 2001 by Westerly Road Church. He serve as a chaplain at the College of New Jersey for 20 years.
He married his wife, Sylvia, in 1970. They live in Pennington and have two sons and two grandchildren.