A Modern Day Paul
This is Pastor Dynes. If you ever want to find so
mething in Phnom Penh, all you have to do is ask Pastor Dynes. Dynes knows everyone and everything in Phnom Penh. You can see from the picture that he is not a huge man, but he is strong and wiry. He is also very handy with repairing things.
Pastor Dynes reminds us of Paul. Paul was a tentmaker who when money was a little tight, was not afraid of working in his field of being a tentmaker. Pastor Dynes also supports himself and his family of a wife and two sons by driving a tuk tuk, a small trailer that holds four Americans or a dozen Khmer people and is pulled by a motorbike. Pastor Dynes has modified his tuk tuk to use a drip cooling system. He has a large reservoir that looks like at one point held cooking oil which he fills with water. Then, he has scrounged some clear tubing that provides a constant drip of water on to the cooling fins of his motor bike’s engine.
A bible is always somewhere near Pastor and his tuk tuk. If you hire Dynes for the day, he will give you his phone number and ask that you call him when you want to go somewhere else. But, when you call, he will not answer, but will show up at the appointed rendezvous point with a big smile on his face in just a couple of minutes. While you shopped, Dynes was under the shade of a large tree reading his bible and planning his next sermon.
Dynes speaks some English, but cannot really understand a real deep conversation. He works hard and we wish that we could talk more with him, but because he lives some distance from the office, and works hard at driving his tuk tuk, we need to limit our contact to situations that can help him make money to support himself and his family.
But, if you come to Cambodia and want a romantic tour of the capital maybe you can hire Pastor DyDynes and his tuk tuk to take you around town.
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