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Hadder Rendon flies high

Hadder Rendon’s father caught a glimpse of the enormous opportunities in the United States after a month-long visit in 1988. “From that point on my dad had a dream to take the family to the states,” said Rendon, “and in 1991 he came to the states to find the American dream.” Rendon was nine when he, his five-year-old brother and his mother left Colombia, South America, in 1993 to join his father in Maryland. One of his first memories is living in a two-room house where... Read More

Leading

From doubt to peace

What are you doing? That question was ringing in David Padilla’s mind for the 2,249 mile cross country drive from California to South Carolina. But who’s counting? Last July Padilla accepted a coaching assistant position under Jay Mills. But this was more than a job, more than trading palm trees for Palmetto trees or the [...]

Serving

Musical Intervention

Born in the Bronx, Charleston Southern University sophomore Omar de Oca Montes grew up between the streets of New York and the small province of Monte Plata in the Dominican Republic. For a child, the settings were full of temptation. Before that could happen his father intervened, putting Omar and his sister in piano class [...]