Ed Silvoso

Ed Silvoso (born June 15, 1945) is an Argentinian Christian author and documentarian, He is the founder of Harvest Evangelism and the International Transformation Network, the objective of which is to end worldwide systemic poverty. He is a leader of the Argentine Revival and of the modern transformation movement.

Ed Silvoso
Born (1945-06-15) June 15, 1945
San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina
NationalityArgentine
OccupationAuthor, documentarian, evangelist
Known forHarvest Evangelism
International Transformation Network

Early life and education

Ed Silvoso was born June 15, 1945, at San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina.[1] He is the son of Omar Edmundo Silvoso and Maria Teresa Troia and has a younger sister, Maria Rosa. They formed an evangelistic team at the age of seventeen when the country was intensely anti-evangelical.[2] He graduated from Colegio Nacional Justo Jose de Urquiza in 1962;[3] seven years later he became a pastor in Mar del Plata, Argentina.[4] Silvoso married Ruth Noemi Palau, sister of Christian evangelist Luis Palau,[5] on April 20, 1968, and they had four daughters.

Silvoso studied at Multnomah Bible College while organizing large religious events in major South American locations;[6] he then moved to Pasadena, California, to attend Fuller Seminary. Silvoso began working full-time with Luis Palau's evangelistic team in 1970 and became the coordinator for International Mass Media Evangelism.[7][8] He served as pastor for various congregations, as a missionary with Overseas Crusades (1970–1976), and as a team member with Palau (1977–1980).[9] He launched his own ministry in 1980 and since then has written five books.

Career

Silvoso began as a lay evangelist and national youth leader in Argentina (1958–1969). He founded Harvest Evangelism in San Jose, California, and today it has over eighty associates.[10] Silvoso hosts international conferences that promote city, regional, and national change through ecumenical ministry.[11]

In 2002, Silvoso established the International Transformation Network, a voluntary association that creates alliances between clergy and local marketplaces, and he travels encouraging cooperation between various religious groups.[12]

Harvest Evangelism was founded in August 1980 and pioneered city transformation beginning with Resistencia.[13][14] The Silvosos converted their weekend home at San Nicolás de los Arroyos into a prayer chapel and retreat center; the purpose was to launch a prayer-based evangelical ministry (1983–88).[15] The site was dedicated on March 24, 1983, and within three years congregations and home groups were established in eighty-two towns.[4] The same approach was applied to more than three hundred cities,[16] and expanded to six continents.[17]

Silvoso is acknowledged as a leader of the Argentine Revival.[18][19] Thousands have visited over the past twenty years to observe his methodology.[20] As a result, many have adopted his concept of transformation,[21] and this culminated in his book, Transformation: Change the Marketplace and You Change the World (2007).[22]

Silvoso is best known for his role in transformationalism and is identified as the architect of the modern movement. It blends various religious and social elements to change local communities and the marketplace. The term "marketplace" includes business, education, and government and applies to marriage,[23] politics,[24] culture,[25] and workplace.[26][27][28] The movement developed into the International Transformation Network (ITN), established to create strategic alliances between pulpits and marketplace leaders. Members are challenged to invest fifty-one percent of resources to eradicate worldwide poverty.[29][30] Five paradigms are at the core of ITN, and they involve changes in spiritual climate, public policies, and ecclesiastical institutions.[31][32] The network urges Christian leaders to participate in eliminating systemic poverty in all its forms.[33]

Silvoso's 2014 book, Ekklesia, discusses the intent of the early church.[34] The first three chapters of this book were distributed in limited number, and the full version is projected in late 2016.[35]

Transform Our World.org is a website that amalgamates various services under the auspices of Harvest Evangelism, Inc. and the Transform Our World Network,[36] both under the direction of Silvoso.[37] It provides a wide range of training and mentoring for marketplace ministers through institutions such as the School of Transformation,[38] Transformation University,[39] and the Transformation Entrepreneurs Institute.

Books

Silvoso has written extensively on spiritual transformation in volumes that contain the principles and paradigms generally adopted in the movement. These books provide significant biographical information that helps to trace its origins as well as the personal journey he took that resulted in becoming one of its principal figures.

  • That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8307-1688-2
  • Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8307-2397-8
  • Women: God's Secret Weapon: God's Inspiring Message to Women of Power, Purpose and Destiny. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8307-2887-2
  • Anointed for Business. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8307-2861-9
  • Transformation: Change the Marketplace and You Change the World. Ventura, Ca.: Regal Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8307-4514-2
  • Ekklesia: Rediscovering God's Instrument for Global Transformation. Bloomington, Mn.: Chosen Books, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8007-9856-7

References
  1. Silvoso, Ed (2000). Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City. Ventura, Ca: Regal Press. p. 27.
  2. Silvoso, Ed (1994). That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism. Ventura, Ca: Regal Press. pp. 22–24.
  3. "Argentinian Evangelist at Community Church". Hesperia Resorter. July 20, 1972.
  4. "Personal Story". Archived from the original on July 5, 2013. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
  5. Demarco, John M. "El Predicador Bilingue (The Bilingual Preacher)". Charisma Magazine (July 31, 2006). Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  6. Davies, Wilma Wells (2010). The Embattled but Empowered Community: Comparing Understanding of Spiritual Power in Argentine Popular and Pentecostal Cosmologies. The Netherlands: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, Brill Press.
  7. Hesperia Resorter. July 20, 1972.
  8. "La Tribuna". October 28, 1975.
  9. Stanton, Noel. "Talking to Ed Silvoso". Jesus Life (September 25, 1999).
  10. Sanchez, Sheila (July 21, 2005). "God at Work". Weekly Almaden Times.
  11. Choy, Jeremy. "Ed Silvoso's Transformation Conference 2006". Issue 30, January–March 2007. Harvest Times. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  12. "Ed Silvoso". New Canaan Society. Archived from the original on November 15, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  13. "Visitara Argentina El Pastor Coreano Paul Chonggi Cho". Resistencia. January 16, 1987.
  14. Logelin, Inger J. "Transformation: What Set the Argentina Revival Apart?". In The Workplace. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  15. Out of this experience developed much of the content for Silvoso's second book, "Prayer Evangelism"; the account of his early ministry is told in "That None Should Perish," 1994.
  16. "Media from Speech". New Canaan Society. Archived from the original on November 15, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  17. Wagner, Peter and Pablo Deiros (1999). "The Argentine Phenomenon" extracted and edited from "The Rising Revival". Ventura, Ca.: Gospel Light Publications.
  18. Holvast, René (2008). Spiritual Mapping in the United States and Argentina, 1989–2005. The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
  19. Wagner, C. Peter. "The Awesome Argentina Revival—Lessons in Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare from Argentina".
  20. Silvoso acknowledges the successful ministries of others in the Argentine Revival by name, “Unleashing the Headwaters of Revival,” The Rising Revival: Firsthand Accounts of the Incredible Argentine Revival—and How It Can Spread throughout the World, edited by C. Peter Wagner and Pablo Deiros, Ventura, Ca: Renew, 1998, pp. 202–204. He also supplies background for the events leading to the revival, pp. 207–216.
  21. Jane Rumph identified Ed Silvoso as an Argentine strategist, "Engaging the Enemy in Resistencia," The Rising Revival, p. 144, and acknowledges that "Plan Resisencia" became a prototype for citywide evangelism applied around the world, pp. 144–145, 156.
  22. "Five Star Evangelist". Re (14): 13–18. June 2011.
  23. Serra, Jack (1999). Marketplace Marriage & Revival: The Spiritual Connection. Orlando, Fl: Longwood Communications.
  24. Patterson, Alice (2010). Bridging the Racial & Political Divide How Godly Politics Can Transform a Nation. San Jose, Ca: Transformational Publications.
  25. Oda, Caroline Ward and (2007). Catch the Wave of Transformation from the Shores of Hawaii. San Jose, Ca: Transformational Publications.
  26. Heeren, Rick (2004). Thank God It's Monday! How to Take God to Work with You. San Jose, Ca: Transformational Publications.
  27. Also see: Rick Heeren. Marketplace Miracles: Extraordinary Stories of Marketplace Turnarounds Transforming Businesses, Schools and Communities, Ventura, Ca: Regal Press, 2008.
  28. Walker, Ken. "It's Time for Marketplace Ministry". Charisma Magazine (May 31, 2003). Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  29. Silvoso, Ed (2007). Transformation: Change The Marketplace and You Change the World. Ventura, Ca.: Regal Press. p. 221.
  30. "Transformation Hawai'i". Archived from the original on July 22, 2013. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  31. Pagh, Greg. "What are 5 Key Biblical Paradigms of Nation Transformation?". Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  32. For a social model see, George H. Meyers, "Toward a Model of Cooperation to Implement Enduring Urban and Rural Development for the Republic of Guatemala," developed at the request of Manuel Baldizón, Diputado Parliament of Guatemala, 2011.
  33. Silvoso, Transformation, pp. 28–29. This section introduces the five paradigms, while pp. 115–120 define systemic poverty as it relates to the transformation movement.
  34. Ed Silvoso, Ekklesia: Rediscovering What Jesus Designed the Church For, 2014. Some of this booklet was delivered to the 24th Global Transformation Conference in Hawaii, October 27–31, 2014.
  35. Similar material is contained in the DVD, Ekklesia: The Kingdom of God in the Marketplace.
  36. http://www.transformourworld.org/en/itn/international-transformation-network Archived November 20, 2013, at Archive.today.
  37. For an additional biography, see http://www.cbn.com/finance/edsilvoso_anointed.aspx?mobile=false.
  38. http://www.transformourworld.org/en/tsot Archived August 31, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
  39. https://transformationondemand.com/university
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