Woman Who Narrowly Escaped Being Murdered by Charles Manson Now a Prison Chaplain
"She became the first Protestant female chaplain in L.A. history...has ministered to convicted murderer Eric Menendez...confronted and won over satanists in the prison...and moves easily among thieves, rapists, and other violent offenders. She prayed the sinner's prayer with Tommy Lee, then married to Pamela Anderson. 'He was a very broken man at the time,' she says. 'He was very open to it, and wanted a copy of the prayer.'"
(Beverly Hills, CA)—Jozy Pollock shouldn't be alive today. She should have been at Sharon Tate's home that warm summer night in 1969 when a terrible murder took place. It was a migraine headache that delayed her plans and she consequently escaped a horrible nightmare inflicted on the national psyche by Charles Manson and his followers...
In an interview Jozy did with me at the recent 9th Annual Media Fellowship International Brunch in Beverly Hills for Safe Worlds Good News IPTV, she recounted the incredible event that changed her life. (Click on the link provided to read her account.)
In a previous interview with my ANS colleague, Mark Ellis, Jozy told more of her later conversion to Christ...Here is what he wrote:
Some time later, after a failed relationship with a man Pollock found through a psychic's predictions, she was at the end of her rope. She called a friend named Mike whose life had been transformed by Jesus Christ. "I said, "I've had enough torment," she recalls.
"He said, 'Jozy, what do you really want?'
"I said, 'All I want is peace.'
"He said, 'With Jesus you can have peace, but you have to pray the sinner's prayer.'
"I said, 'Wait a minute, I'm not a sinner, I'm a good person. I'm always helping people.'
"He said, 'No Jozy, you're a sinner.'
"So I prayed the sinner's prayer through gritted teeth. For six months I rebelled against everything. I said, 'Lord, don't turn me into a Jesus freak. I just want to do a little bit of this.'"
But after six months Pollock sensed she was missing something. Pollock went to her Bible study leader and they prayed together. "Suddenly I had a huge hunger and thirst for God."
"It was hard giving up my will," Pollock says. "But after I gave up my will I had peace." After Pollock's water baptism, she says she had a "feeling of falling in love with Jesus."
Surprisingly, the life God spared her for involves prisons--she became the first Protestant female chaplain in L.A. history. "I never thought I would be in ministry," Pollock says. "God has given me boldness to confront people in the jail," she says.
Pollock has ministered to convicted murderer Eric Menendez, who she describes as outwardly a very "charming guy." She has confronted and won over satanists in the prison, who were initially hostile, and moves easily among thieves, rapists, and other violent offenders.
She prayed the sinner's prayer with Tommy Lee, then married to Pamela Anderson. "He was a very broken man at the time," she says. "He was very open to it, and wanted a copy of the prayer."
