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June
2008
Eddie
While looking
for Pastor Pokorny on the internet I came across you (the crossBeaTs web site) and boy, did it bring back
memories of the Catacombs in Manchester. I was sorry to read about
Dave "the Rave" Eastwood and Val Grieve dying though.
I can still remember most of your great song "The
Answer Man" and even when you switched names from The Seekers - that must date
me! You had a great ministry and I am delighted to see it in archive form,
especially as there is nothing on the internet about what happened to either
Pastor Pokorny (whom I met several times) and Fred Lemon.
Pastor
August Erwin Pokorny was an ex-Nazi youth leader and founder of the Austrian
Bible Mission. Their webpage is or
was:
www.austrianbiblemission.at/Pages/English/e-frameset.htm
which ministers to refugees. They had an English address in Eastbourne
which turns out to be a lock-up garage and they have not answered my queries
which suggests the UK branch is now defunct.
I had Pastor Pokorny at my school about 20 years ago, possibly
less, when he was in fine form. The one incredible story I heard him tell three
times was when he had been converted in Germany he worked as a spy against the
Nazis.
He knew he was a wanted man, although unidentified, and when
everyone was ordered off a train and into a station waiting room he thought his
number was up. As the Gestapo officer came down the line checking all the
documents of everyone on the train he began to tremble as his papers would
expose him. He then heard a voice saying "Be still and know that I am God". He
stopped shaking as the officer picked up his envelope, pulled out the papers,
looked at him, smiled, and then replaced the papers without looking at them
before moving on to the next man.
Amazing!
Sorry but I have no
pictures of the past. The Catacombs was a powerful ministry and The Seekers
were a big attraction there, even before they changed their name to The
Crossbeats. I heard them two or three times and was most impressed. I don't
know if any of my contemporaries can help with any more information but I am
copying this to Peter Davies and Colin Reilly who were both around at the
time.
Best Christian wishes
Peter Worsley
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