Our Leaders

Rev. Dr. Obadiah Swen is an anointed preacher and teacher. His messages sound the trumpet, calling ministers and laity alike to holiness, excellence, service, and wholehearted commitment to establishing God’s Kingdom. He and his wife, Elizabeth are Pastors of Harvest Intercontinental Church – Virginia, now Harvest Intercontinental World Evangelism. Harvest-Virginia is a part of Harvest Intercontinental Ministries Unlimited (HIM-U), a premier multicultural, mission-oriented, disciple-making organization with more than 450 churches and ministries in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America. Dr. Swen has also served as the United States National Overseer and International Missions Director of HIM-U. He is the Chief Financial Officer at Baltimore International Academy, Inc. (BIA), a multilingual immersion and international baccalaureate public charter school in Baltimore, Maryland.  He is blessed with a God-fearing woman of excellence who operates in the prophetic and psalmist anointing. God has blessed them with three lovely children: Lacinda and her husband Cazambe, Othniel, and Enoch.

Dr. Swen has a passion for God and His people and a desire to empower them to experience all God has destined for them. Since 2019, when he and Elizabeth attended the Global Awakening Empowered Conference, he has experienced an acceleration of healing, deliverance, and prophecy in his life and ministry, which led him to focus his life and ministry to equip believers. Dr. Swen earned a doctor of ministry degree in Renewal Theology from Global Awakening Theological Seminary of Family of Faith Christian University and is a certified master equipper in physical healing, emotional healing, and deliverance through Global Awakening’s College of Ministry (formerly CHCP). He empowers churches and believers worldwide for the global end-time harvest by focusing on preaching the gospel, healing the sick, delivering the captives, contending for renewal, and the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, by training and establishing healing and renewal teams that catalyze worldwide discipleship, evangelism, and church growth. Dr. Swen has conducted several Healing Seminars and opened a Healing and Deliverance Room at HIMU ministry headquarters in Olney, Maryland.  He has also traveled extensively with HIMU on mission trips to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Cameron, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, the Virgin Islands, and with Global Awakening to Brazil, Israel, Wales, United Kingdom, and Australia as a part of the ministry team.