WEST COAST/ INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

Ed & Ruth Silvoso
President and Founder

Ed Silvoso, founder and president of Harvest Evangelism and the International Transformation Network, is widely recognized as a strategist and solid Bible teacher who specializes in nation and marketplace transformation. He is the author of best-selling books That None Should Perish, Prayer Evangelism, Women: God’s Secret Weapon and Anointed for Business. His newest book, Transformation, was released in September 2007 by Regal Books. Ed is also the producer and host of the DVD series Transformation in the Marketplace with Ed Silvoso. Initially trained in business, his background includes banking, hospital administration and financial services. Ed and his wife, Ruth, have provided visionary leadership to the growing Harvest Evangelism team for over 25 years.
# 408-927-9052 | edsilvoso@harvestevan.org

Go to Ed Silvoso's Blog

Ted & Sandra Hahs
West Coast Director
Chief Intercessors

Ted and Sandra have served with Harvest for since 1996. As Chief Intercessor Ted leads an international network of intercessors who pray regularly for the ministry. Since 2005 Ted has served as the West Coast Director overseeing the ministry projects in the region. Prior to joining Harvest he was in the marketplace as a professional athlete and director of a fine art business.

Ted and Sandra met in Lisbon, Portugal where she danced for the National Company of Ballet. They live in San Jose with their four children.
# 408-350-1670 | Ted@harvestevan.org

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Benjy MacNaughton
Short Term Mission Director, Transformation Youth Director

Jesica MacNaughton
Project Assistant

Benjy first participated in a short-term mission trip to Argentina with Harvest Evangelism in 1992 and had a life-changing experience. It was on this trip that Benjy first met Jesica and they later married in 1998. Benjy and Jesica now direct this annual short-term missions trip that equips and empowers teenagers, college students and young adults to be world changers. Benjy also provides leadership for several campus transformation initiatives in the San Francisco Bay Area and leads the Campus Leadership Network that launched in January 2008. Benjy has a strong pastoral gift and an ability to clearly communicate the biblical principles of transformation. Jesica is a prophetic intercessor and leads a network of intercessors who pray daily for the ministry.
# 408-350-1668 | Benjy@harvestevan.org | Jesica@harvestevan.org

Cindy Oliveira
San Jose, California
Executive Assistant to President

Cindy has been serving as Executive Assistant to Ed and Ruth Silvoso since 1993. She uses her organizational and administrative giftings to coordinate all aspects of the Silvosos' ministry, and also supports the Harvest Evangelism team by managing a number of special projects. Before joining Harvest Evangelism, Cindy served as a missionary in Mexico for seven years. She has a young son who also enjoys being part of the Harvest team.
# 408-350-1660 | info@harvestevan.org

Chana F. Ott
San Jose, California
Bookkeeper

Chana joined Harvest Evangelism in November of 2007. Prior to that she was the owner of Cambrian Florist for 16 years where she practiced marketplace ministry. God used her & the flowershop to share His love & transform lives. Customers often came in with heavy hearts and stories filled with pain. They left with a portion of God's strength and a brighter understanding of His plan for their lives.

God has gifted her with a lively spirit, in addition to worshipping the Lord through bookkeeping, she loves to bless people through prayer, exhortation and teaching.
chana@harvestevan.org

Dick Renard
Salinas, California
Associate

Dick Renard, as a marketplace minister with responsibilities as the vice-president of a truck outfitting company, is leading the Salinas, CA, transformation initiative that is influencing the entire Salinas Valley to Monterey. His wife, Jan, is a school-teacher. They have 3 grown sons.
# 831.214.5374 | dick@harvestevan.org

Ken Schuler
Development Director

Ken has served Harvest Evangelism’s donors for 15 years by overseeing all donation-related activities. He has helped donors convert millions of dollars worth of investment into kingdom enterprises that now energize city and nation transformation initiatives under the direction of the Harvest team. In addition, Ken manages Harvest Evangelism’s office complex in San Jose, CA which houses the Harvest offices along with 22 outside tenants. Ken is also a licensed real estate loan consultant.
# 408-350-1666 | Kschuler@harvestevan.org

Marilyn Schuler
Supervising Manager for Finance and Accounting Department

Over the past 20 years, Marilyn has served as Project Manager for Harvest’s International Institutes in Argentina in addition to leading numerous missions trips and conferences. She currently is Harvest’s Financial Analyst as well as being involved in Website Development. Marilyn is a graduate of San Jose State University.
MarilynSchuler@aol.com

Karissa Stafford
San Jose, California
Registrar

Karissa joined the Harvest Team in March of 2008. She works with Evelyn Silvoso Wallace to administrate Harvest’s seminars and conferences. She has a heart to bring worship to the nations through music, teaching and business and has spent time in Asia working with YWAM.
# 408-350-1671 | Karissa@harvestevan.org

Dave and Sue Thompson
Sr. Vice President

Dave Thompson is Senior Vice President of Harvest Evangelism, Inc. After joining with Ed and Ruth Silvoso in 1984, Dave and Sue guided “Plan Resistencia,” Harvest’s first city reaching effort in Resistencia, Argentina in 1990. Today they are serving the multi- national Harvest Team on every continent to develop prototypes for city and nation transformation based on prayer evangelism. Dave is also currently the Coordinator of the International Transformation Network, a strategic alliance of marketplace and pulpit ministers committed to seeing nations discipled in fulfillment of the Great Commission.
# 408-350-1662 | DT4Cities@aol.com
Go to Dave and Sue's Blog

Evelyn Silvoso Wallace
San Jose, California
Macro Designer and Project Manager

For over a decade, Evelyn has served as the project manager for Harvest events, seminars and trips to Argentina. Evelyn is currently the project manager for Harvest Evangelism’s International Institute on Nation Transformation in Argentina. She is also involved in the headquarters’ leadership through Macro Design. She and her husband Karl co-founded Transformation Church in Silicon Valley, California. They have one son.
# 408-350-1667 | Evelyn4he@aol.com

MIDWEST

Rick and Rachel Heeren
Regional Vice President, Central Region, USA

Rick is one of this generation's pioneers in the concept of bringing prayer and intercession into businesses. He is a seasoned implementer and practitioner of the principles of prayer evangelism as his book, Thank God It's Monday! reveals. Rick's second book, The Elk River Story, shows how leaders in Elk River, Minnesota, are implementing prayer evangelism and transforming the spiritual climate in their city. A third book, The Threshing Floor, documents Minnesota's calling as The Threshing Floor to the nation. His teaching combines extensive knowledge of the Word of God, the anointing of the Holy Spirit and 25 years of business experience. He is a member of the visiting faculty for the Wagner Leadership Institute's Marketplace Track and is the Minnesota Coordinator for the U.S. Strategic Prayer Network. Rick and Rachel have two grown children and live in Bloomington, MN.
# 612-840-5813 | rchjr@aol.com

Go to Rick's Blog

NORTHEAST

Jack and Alice Jane Serra
Regional Vice President for the East Coast

Jack and AJ come from the business world, where Jack's marketing and sales expertise with his own company won him the Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for New Jersey in 1988. In 1996, Jack and AJ joined Harvest Evangelism to dedicate their lives to helping pastors and marketplace leaders embrace their calling to reach cities. Jack has authored two books, Marketplace, Marriage &Revival: The Spiritual Connection and The Marketplace Connection: Reflections of a Businessman. The Serras have founded "The M&M Connection," a consulting company dedicated to helping business owners, corporate executives and marketplace Christians make the connection between biblical principles for a godly marriage and God-ordained success in the marketplace. M&M offers a three-month weekly study for couples to connect these issues. Jack and AJ are the parents of three married children, and have five grandchildren. They live in Pittsburgh, PA, and Orlando, FL.
# 412-400-0135 | Jserrasr@aol.com

Go to Jack and Alice's Blog

FLORIDA

Dr. Hugo Morales
St. Augustine, FL
Associate

Dr. Morales, a retired cardiologist born in Argentina, now resides in St. Augustine, FL, the oldest city in the U.S. With his wife, Kathleen, Dr. Morales is helping establish prayer evangelism initiatives fro transformation in the St. Augustine/ Jacksonville area. They have two adopted children.
# 831.214.5374 | hugo@harvestevan.org

BERMUDA

Joan Simmons
Bermuda
Associate

Joan Simmons is a financial services consultant in the beautiful isle of Bermuda where along with Conway, her pastor and husband, she is building a nation transformation prototype. She has been instrumental in leading one premier to the Lord, and in establishing a national day of prayer in Bermuda. They have two grown children.
joan@harvestevan.org