Career

J. Frank Norris, pastor of Temple Baptist from 1934 to 1950, appointed Vick in 1935 to help him manage the church, as Norris himself traveled between it and First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1950, Vick had a falling out with Norris and became pastor of Temple Baptist. John R. Rice, editor of the Sword of the Lord and the confidant and supporter of Bob Jones, Senior, was one of the leaders of American Fundamentalism in the 1950s and 1960 was a protégé of J. Frank Norris and grew up in his household.

Rice later broke with Norris over the Calvinist doctrine of predestination and split the fundamentalist movement.