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Born: July 21, 1952

Occupation: Christian author, speaker and business coach for leaders. Os has also published many Bible Studies on YouVersion. Os produces a weekly podcast called TGIF@Work podcast on iHeart radio and Apple podcasts.

Omar Smallwood Hillman III “Os” (born on July 21, 1952) in Columbia, SC. He is the fourth child of five children born to Sunny and Lillian Hillman. His father was a businessman in Columbia, SC. His father began his career in the toys and hobbies business, owning and operating Hillman Sporting Goods in downtown Columbia, SC.

Personal Life and Sports

Os attended grammar school and high school in Columbia. He graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1970. He played sports in high school. He was on the basketball team that won the 4A high school state championship in 1969 and he was on the golf team that won the state championship in 1970.

Os was an exception junior golfer growing up. His father taught him to play at 11 years old. By age 14 he had three hole-in-ones and had broken 70 several times, even breaking his home course record of 66. Os played in the 1967 US Junior Amateur at Brookline Country Club in Boston, Massachusetts.

Os’s father died in a plane crash that his father was piloting with two other executives that were part of the company he served as president. The company went bankrupt three years later.

Os attended the University of South Carolina on a four-year golf scholarship. He had modest success during his four years. Nevertheless, he turned pro after college and worked at three different golf courses over four years in North Myrtle Beach, SC, Vail, Colorado, and Fayetteville, NC.

Os became a Christian in 1975 in North Myrtle Beach through the influence of a local pastor named Jim Mezick. That had a transformative influence in Os’s life. Os met and married Diane in 1980 after attending Calvary Bible School in Twin Peaks, CA. The marriage lasted 10 years but Diane filed for divorce for irreconcilable differences in 1996. Os and Diane had one child, Charis, born in 1983. Os would remarry to Angie and they would be married for ten years before Angie left the marriage. There were no children from this marriage. Os would remain single for the next 7 years until he met Pamela. They married May 7 of 2016.

Career

Os left the golf profession and began a career in sales and marketing. He first worked for a large printing company selling printing. He was recruited by a Christian magazine to sell advertising. He was recruited from there by a local ad agency that specialized in the Christian market. He began his own ad agency in 1983 called The Aslan Group. That company lasted 12 years. The company served many high profile clients like American Express, Steinway Pianos, Thomas Nelson Publishers, ADP Payroll Services and Parisian Department Stores (now Belk). The company won many national awards from the Direct Marketing Association.

Os experienced a major crisis in 1994 that would last 7 years that would ultimately lead to shutting down his ad agency. He was the victim of a Bernie Madoff scam and his client that represented 80% of his business fired them and failed to pay their bill owed to the company.

Seven years after the crisis Os received a windfall of money that totally restored him.

This crisis would be the catalyst to launch Os into an international writing, speaking and training ministry to men and women in the marketplace. Os would be recognized as one of the leaders of the faith@work movement that was birthed in the late 1990s. Os appeared on many national media such as CNBC, NY Times, GodTV, TBN, LA Times, etc. Os has spoken in 26 different countries and over 100 cities in the US and write over 26 books.

He began writing a daily devotional in 1998 called TGIF Today God Is First that is read by hundreds of thousands of readers in 105 countries and is recognized as the leading devotional serving men and women in the workplace.

Os is happily married to Pamela and they live in Cumming, GA a northern suburb of Atlanta, GA. His daughter Charis and son-in-law Justin live just a few miles away.

7 Mountain Movement

Os would be a catalyst to promote the Seven Mountain Mandate from 2000 to the present.

The movement is believed by its followers to have begun in 1975 with a purported message from God delivered to evangelicals Loren Cunningham, Bill Bright, and Francis Schaeffer ordering them to influence the "seven spheres" of society identified as family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. The idea was not seriously considered until 2000 during a meeting between Cunningham and Lance Wallnau. Os met Lance Wallnau in 2000 when he first learned of The movement which came to prominence after the 2013 publication of Lance Wallnau and Bill Johnson's Invading Babylon: The 7 Mountain Mandate.

Os began to host 7 mountain conferences for the next several years and would write a book entitled Change Agent that described strategies to influence the 7 cultural mountains. In 2019 Os hosted an international conference called the Cultures Shapers Summit in Washington DC and partnered with the Museum of the Bible. Over 50 speakers presented over 31/2 days.