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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