Fr Dan Kovalak, senior lecturer in Pastoral Practice at St Tikhon's, presented two sessions on "Sharing Your Faith" as part of the 2009 Orthodox Institute Northern California held on Saturday, September 26 at St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in San Francisco CA. The Institute is a pan-Orthodox event that encompasses teacher training and education topics of Orthodox belief.  The OCEC Teacher Training Program, Myra Kovalak, Director, offers these workshops to improve the quality of education in our church schools.  OI Northern California was sponsored by the Christian Education Department of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese; Carole Buleza, Director.