Ed Silvoso

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Ed Silvoso
Born (1945-06-15) June 15, 1945 (age 78)
San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina
Occupation(s)Author, documentarian, evangelist
Known forHarvest Evangelism
International Transformation Network

Ed Silvoso (born June 15, 1945) is an Argentine New Apostolic Reformation evangelist, author, and documentarian. He founded Harvest Evangelism and the Transform Our World Network, the objective of which is to end worldwide systemic poverty in its four expressions. [1] He was a leader in the Argentine Revival during the 1990s and is a formative figure in the modern transformation movement. [2] Silvoso has hosted conferences, participated in symposiums, provided leadership training, and appeared in the media. [3] He has published six books and produced a documentary library of over forty titles.

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Early ministry

Ed Silvoso was born at San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina. He is the son of Omar Edmundo Silvoso and Maria Teresa Troia and has a younger sister, Maria Rosa. He formed an evangelistic team at the age of seventeen when the country was intensely anti-evangelical. [4] He graduated from Colegio Nacional Justo Jose de Urquiza in 1962; [5] seven years later he became a pastor in Mar del Plata, Argentina. [6] Silvoso married Ruth Noemi Palau, the sister of evangelist Luis Palau, on April 20, 1968, and they have four daughters.

He attended Multnomah Bible College in Portland, Oregon, and later moved to Pasadena, California, to continue his studies at Fuller Seminary. Silvoso began working with Luis Palau as part of Overseas Crusades in 1970 as coordinator for International Mass Media Evangelism (1970–1976). [7] He was full-time with Palau's evangelistic team (1977–1980) before founding Harvest Evangelism. [8]

Career

He established Harvest Evangelism at San Jose, California, in 1980; it is now known as Transform Our World (TOW). While this ministry pioneered city transformation, [9] its initial influence was the result of efforts in Resistencia, Argentina. [10]

The same approach was applied to more than three hundred cities, and it expanded to six continents. [11] Silvoso began to host international conferences that promoted local, regional, and national change through ecumenical ministry. [12] The lessons learned were shared in Silvoso's first book, That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ through Prayer Evangelism (1994). The concepts in this volume inspired the Transform Our World Network, a voluntary association that creates alliances between local marketplaces and various faith-based assemblies. [13]

Members are challenged to invest their resources to help eradicate systemic poverty in its four aspects. This theme is broadened in Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City (2000) and Anointed for Business (2002). [14] Five paradigms are at the core of TOW, and they involve changes in spiritual climate, public policies, and ecclesiastical institutions. [15]

Silvoso is an acknowledged leader of the Argentine Revival, [16] and thousands in the United States have observed his methodology over the past thirty years, both clergy and laity. [17] As a result, they have adopted his approach to transformation, a process that affects the marketplace as well as the church. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ Silvoso, Transformation, pp. 28-29.
  2. ↑ Jane Rumph identified Ed Silvoso as a brilliant 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.
  3. ↑ “Ed Silvoso Urges Cincinnati to Change Marketplace and Nation Though Prayer,” SF Gate, March 17, 2011. www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/16/prweb8201556.DTL&ao=2. See also NewGuide.us, March 17, 2011. newsguide.us/mass-media/blogging-social-media/ed-silvoso-urges-cincinnati-to-change-marketplace-and-nation-through.html, and “Ed Silvoso to Speak at AWOP Faith Forward Event,” The Cincinnati Herald, February 2, 2011. www.thecincinnatiherald.com/news/2011-02-19/Section_B/Ed_Silvoso_ to_Speak_at_ AWOP_Faith_Forward_Event.html.
  4. ↑ Sheila Sanchez, “God at Work,” Weekly Almaden Times, July 21, 2005. www.almadentimes.com/072105/ focus.htm.
  5. ↑ “Argentinian Evangelist at Community Church,” Hesperia Resorter, July 20, 1972.
  6. ↑ Ed Silvoso website, “Personal Story,” www.edsilvoso.com/publicity-kit/personal-story-2.
  7. ↑ Book review on the Dehoney Center for Urban Ministry Training website. http://urban.sbts.edu/1-1/book-review-that-none-should-perish%5B%5D.
  8. ↑ Noel Stanton, “Talking to Ed Silvoso,” Jesus Life, September 25, 1999.
  9. ↑ Jeremy Choy, “Ed Silvoso's Transformation Conference 2006,” Harvest Times, Issue 30, January–March 2007 www.chc.org.sg/harvesttimes/ht_30/ht_30_10.asp.
  10. ↑ René Holvast, Spiritual Mapping in the United States and Argentina, 1989-2005: A Geography of Fear, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2008, p. 314.
  11. ↑ Inger J. Logelin, In The Workplace. “Transformation: What Set the Argentina Revival Apart?” www.intheworkplace.com apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=13417&columnid=1935.
  12. ↑ Richard M. Riss, “A History of the Worldwide Awakening on 1992-1995.” http://www.grmi.org/Richard_%5B%5D Riss/ history.html. See also, “The Roots and Fruits of the Argentine Revival,” Pablo A. Deiros, in The Rising Revival, p.30.
  13. ↑ “Spiritual Transformers in the Marketplace” (PDF), www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source= web&cd=5&ved=0CFMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2%2Fwww.purepublicity.com%2Fpdf%2Freleases%2FTransformation.pdf&ei=1WspUPvMC6GuiAL94oHgAQ&usg=AFQjCNFA-zb01OSmZSFnq5bc3-dI7Vd-jg.
  14. ↑ “Ministry in the Marketplace,” CBN.com. Adapted from Ed Silvoso's Anointed for Business. www.cbn.com/finance/edsilvoso_anointed.aspx.
  15. ↑ Bill Bright. Foreword to Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2000.
  16. ↑ C. Peter Wagner, “The Awesome Argentina Revival—Lessons in Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare from Argentina.” http://www.openheaven.com/library/history/argentina.htm Archived October 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine . Silvoso acknowledges the successful ministries of the 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.
  17. ↑ Kenneth D. MacHarg, “Argentine Evangelicals Buoyed by Rally, Growth in Spirit and Numbers,” LAM News Service excerpted from Christian Citizen, Dayton, Ohio, 1999. For statistics see Encuesta conicet sobre creencia (PDF), 2008. See also: D’Arpa's Domain, “Revival in Argentina,” www.kristendarpa.com/2009/05/revival-in-argentina.html.
  18. ↑ “Five Star Evangelist,” Re, Issue 14, June 2011, pp. 13-18.
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