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 was born June 15, 1945, 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. They 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, sister of Christian evangelist Luis Palau, 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; 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. He served as pastor for various congregations, as a missionary with Overseas Crusades (1970–1976), and as a team member with Palau (1977–1980). He launched his own ministry in 1980 and since then has written five books. 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. Silvoso hosts international conferences that promote city, regional, and national change through ecumenical ministry. 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. Harvest Evangelism was founded in August 1980 and pioneered city transformation beginning with Resistencia. 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). The site was dedicated on March 24, 1983, and within three years congregations and home groups were established in eighty-two towns. The same approach was applied to more than three hundred cities, and expanded to six continents.