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. He graduated from Colegio Nacional Justo Jose de Urquiza in 1962; seven years later he became a pastor in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Silvoso married Ruth Noemi Palau, the sister of evangelist Luis Palau, on April 20, 1968, and they have four daughters. He attendedCareer
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, its initial influence was the result of efforts in Resistencia, Argentina. The same approach was applied to more than three hundred cities, and it expanded to six continents. Silvoso began to host international conferences that promoted local, regional, and national change through ecumenical ministry. 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. 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). Five paradigms are at the core of TOW, and they involve changes in spiritual climate, public policies, and ecclesiastical institutions. Silvoso is an acknowledged leader of the Argentine Revival, and thousands in the United States have observed his methodology over the past thirty years, both clergy and laity. As a result, they have adopted his approach to transformation, a process that affects the marketplace as well as the church.“Five Star Evangelist,” Re, Issue 14, June 2011, pp. 13-18.Books
*''That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism''. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 1994. *''Prayer Evangelism: How to Change the Spiritual Climate Over Your Home, Neighborhood and City''. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2000. *''Women: God's Secret Weapon: God's Inspiring Message to Women of Power, Purpose and Destiny''. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2001. *''Anointed for Business''. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2002. *''Transformation: Change the Marketplace and You Change the World''. Ventura, CA: Regal Press, 2007. *''Ekklesia: Rediscovering God's Instrument for Global Transformation''. Bloomington, MN: Chosen Books, 2017.References
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