Edward Ellsworth Guy has committed his life to alleviating human
suffering. Based upon sophisticated principles developed over years, he
has labored empathetically as a social worker, development expert, advocate,
missionary, and pastor in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, the United
States, and elsewhere.
By insight and experience he has become an intercultural expert
called to Washington, D.C., and elsewhere as a witness to human rights
violations, and to various nations to train others in human development and to
organize Hispanic ministries.
He has promoted agricultural development based upon sustainable
technology and promoted safe, convenient water supplies. He has guided
many poor to economic independence, while often suffering hunger himself that
others might be fed. He has amassed materials and labored to build shelter
for others, while frequently being without a place to lay his own head.
He has sought to help the needy find emergency and continuing
health care within their own nations through teaching them to search out
health services which, although often available, are unattainable to those
unfamiliar with public transportation and government agencies. He has
been recognized for his success in bringing children with cleft palates and
other congenital defects to clinics where their lives can be improved.
He has searched at great personal risk for the mission and
"disappeared ones" swallowed up in political turmoil and war, and he
has not hesitated to literally empty his pockets to finances persons
desperately seeking escape from persecution whatever their political
persuasion. In recent years he has sought to return stolen children to
their families.
Woven through all his labors are ministries of spiritual
comfort and pastoral sensitivity. he demonstrates a powerful faith, high
personal values, and a boundless love for persons of all stations in
life. Perhaps the impact and effectiveness of the ministry and service
of Edward Ellsworth Guy are best perceived in the hundreds of persons who call
out to him by name in city streets and byways where he has been a force for
the highest ideals of Christianity. he is a living paradigm of the Good
Samaritan.
Today, on behalf of those who have benefited from his caring
and all those who have supported his service, "Ed" Guy receives the
International Human Rights Award for Service to Humanity.
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