A7
- A7 History
In year 2000 Robert Velarde was deeply touched by the Columbine massacre where American kids killed their own school mates for morbid reasons that reflected the rapidly growing ‘spiritual death’ among many young Americans. This game was called DOOM! These young men were the “Masters of DOOM”. He perceived that there was a chronic lack of direction coupled with frustration and hopelessness within the future generation of America.
R. Velarde saw that there was a tremendous need for these students, who are the hope of America, to get the best help that we can offer. The idea of using the Internet as the tool to spread the Oneness Apostolic Message to American youth was born. We would supply good wholesome content for all ages using the latest in cutting edge technologies.
American students learn how to use computer/Internet skills at a very early age in school. Our nation’s economical strength depends on the intelligence of our manpower. We have been doing very well in competition with other countries. We have the best universities, the best students and the best industrial management in the world. There are criteria standards by American educators and teachers to bring Internet knowledge to our future generation effectively.
Unfortunately, in the educational system there is a lack of instruction on how to protect themselves from negative influences. But we can empower them with knowledge, via the Internet, so they can protect themselves from negative influences, i.e., cigarette addiction which leads them straight to the world of poverty, sickness, cancer, and tragic death. Likewise, we also have the ability and responsibility to empower them with Godly wisdom, via the Internet, so they can be exposed to our Oneness Apostolic Message. This can result in education, empowerment and self-motivation as compared to oppression and bondage. Thus, rather than being slaves of foolishness, they can become masters of wisdom.
The Internet is a powerful platform of tremendous knowledge which provides our people a basis from which to create wealth. Pew and Harvard studies proved that Asian Americans are the wealthiest and have the highest education in the nation. These advantages were analyzed to be directly correlated with their Internet knowledge.
Although there are dangers regarding the Internet, such as porno sites or chat rooms, in general, higher educated people know how to protect themselves from those harmful sites. The “Rich Dad Poor Dad” concept educates our youth to successfully navigate and harness the Internet. The majority of wealthy Americans use their time responsibly because they know how to manage their lives.
American kids learn from their Internet-education program the following:
In the year 2002, he proved the do-ability of his idea through the Johann Strauss Festival (JSF) for which he created the website (StraussPromotions.com) and received tremendous recognition. He put a team together with numerous members from TRC such as C Lombardo, M Jones, D Bocksnick, B Madsen, P Cianchetta, R Budiman, D Kelbatyrov and S Chen, along with Sac Bee’s freelance writer N Mahon, photographer M Gee, and the JSF president Dr. J Ramirez in 2004. This success has led him to the birth of the brilliant idea to set up a network of Apostolic Internet web logs which in 2005 was created and named the A7.
- Who is A7
A7 consists of the following members:
Robert Velarde
Robert Budiman
Chris and Lisa Lombardo
Darren Bocksnick
Buddy and Melba Madsen
Karin Young
A7 Contributors:
Contact: A7 Internet
8359 Elk Grove Florin Rd, Suite 103-181
Sacramento CA 95829
Email:
Phone: 916.548-6495
Web: A7Internet.com