Pastor Joel Fick was born and raised in a Christian home in Southern California.  Pastor Joel did his theological training at Westminster Seminary where he received his M.Div. He was ordained in 2004 in the Presbyterian Church in America and was involved in church planting in Southern California.  

In 2008 Pastor Fick received a call to church plant in Gainesville Florida, and after transferring his ministerial credentials into the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, was installed as an Evangelist at Redemption OPC in Gainesville Florida (then a mission work of the OPC).  

In 2011 Redemption OPC was organized as a new and separate congregation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and called Pastor Fick as their Organizing Pastor.

Pastor Fick and his wife Marianne have four children.