Meeting of the Coordination Committee

Saturday, June 8^th 2002, 10:30am -12pm

St. Nikola Macedonian Orthodox Church, Green, OH

Shown from left to right: Marjan Kochovski, Treasurer of the Canadian American Diocese of the MOC and Treasurer of the hosting Church St. Nikola; Elena Lazarevska, Macedonian American Friendship Association; Vasil Babamov, President, Macedonian American Friendship Association; Jim Sarkovski, President, Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Clement, Toronto; Vasko Temelkovski, Macedonian Church and Macedonian Youth Organization, New Jersey. Dragi Stojkovski, President, United Macedonians, Canada participated in the meeting via conference call. 

The colaborative actions needed to achieve better representation of the Macedonian American views and interests in the US and Canada were the main topic of the meeting. The participants discussed their ideas and suggestions for generating more interests form the Macedonian communities in US and Canada, as well as for greater support and cooperation from the Macedonian representatives in North America. The Committee will meet again at the Macedonian Church Convention in Cleveland in September.