Rev. Dr. William D. Dennison (B.A. Geneva College; M.Div./Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia; Ph. D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Michigan State University). Pastor Bill comes to Emmanuel OPC after years as a professional educator, mainly teaching high school Bible at Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, MI and teaching in the field of humanities at Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, GA. He has been received as Emeritus Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Covenant College. He was ordained as a teaching elder in the OPC in 1995. In the OPC, he is the Instructor of Apologetics for the Ministerial Training Institute of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (MTIOPC). He has authored a number of books and articles. His wife, Patricia Atria Dennison is a graduate of Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. and trained at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia as a Medical Technologist, working in the field for 17 years in Michigan. Upon receiving her Masters degree in Business Management, she moved to the medical insurance field and, then, became the director of the Volunteers in Medicine clinic for the uninsured and, eventually, served the Medical Society of Chattanooga, TN. She also served on the Board for the Homeless Health Care Center Chattanooga. Bill and Pat have been married for nearly 49 years and have three children and seven grandchildren.
