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Hello, my name is Michael Attar, and I founded the ministry of the Good Mood Foundation in 2005. I define “Ministry” as bringing the food, getting the water, and picking up the garbage (or its equivalent). The “Heart” of any ministry is IMPACT as “transformation” and “eternal change” are God’s doing, not ours.
Like you, I’ve had many life struggles. Some of mine were significant life-changing events. Thankfully, by God’s grace, choosing to fight and overcome birthed a ministry. I openly share my spiritual, mental, and cardiac health stories so that others will also know they can receive God’s “transformative” touch. Ultimately, God’s grace and mercy are the underlying reasons for anyone to attain and maintain “health” in any area of life.
Obtaining and maintaining spiritual health is analogous to peeling an onion; you peel away one layer at a time until you reach the “sweet center.” But peeling back our “issues” requires God’s Perspective. Second, like tens of millions of people, I struggled with mood issues. So, in 2007, I authored My Pursuit of a Good Mood to share my stories of hope and recovery. I also started a ministry at Carrollton Springs Hospital (a psychiatric and addiction hospital in TX.), where our volunteers and I ministered every Sunday and Wednesday for seven and a half years. Our ministries IMPACTED thousands of patients by providing the “God Component” for getting well. Engaging with God is a one-hour Gospel-infused presentation the patients responded to spiritually. Sing SOME of Your Blues Away gave patients the opportunity to sing their “hearts” out to God via contemporary worship songs. Our ministry also provided each patient (who wanted) with many needful items and resources. I have always felt that what we did should be Replicated in other psychiatric and addiction hospitals.
The issue of cardiac health entered my life in 2019 when I had a heart failure episode. Miraculously, I recovered, but maintaining heart health will continue to be a lifelong journey. Therefore, after over 40 years of living in Dallas, we moved to “Sweet Home” Alabama, where life is slower, calmer, and less stressful. God also put it on my “heart” to begin a new ministry to heart patients in a local “Alabama Heart Hospital” we call Heart Beats. Interestingly, the medical literature indicates that patients with cardiac issues are more likely to develop mental health concerns. God is good! God has positioned me to care, love, and “listen.” Our ministry verse is “Blessed (Oh, the joy of) are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” It is the sixth of eight “Beatitudes” Jesus spoke of.
I am also a Hebrew Christian, so for thirty years, I have presented Feasts of Israel (in various formats) to several thousand Christians. My presentation explains Israel’s Feasts and includes a Passover “Seder.” Each participant receives a detailed Workbook. Therefore, if you live in the Alabama or Georgia area, please share this “Feasts of Israel” Invitation with your church, friends, and family. I give the “Feasts of Israel” at our home.
In addition to the workbook, each family of the “Feasts of Israel” presentation receives a Shofar Trumpet with Instructions on how to sound it. I’ve also written Sound the Trumpets in Zion, which outlines every Bible story, from Genesis to Revelation, about how God uses His favorite instrument, the “Trumpet,” to communicate His love and redemptive plans and purposes. By God’s providence, we were in Tel Aviv in April 2023, not knowing that our trip coincided with the start of Israel’s 75th Anniversary of Her Statehood in 1948. Thankfully, I always travel with my Shofar Trumpet. Two minutes after sunset, which began Israel’s 75th Anniversary, I Sounded my Shofar from our hotel balcony, a significant highlight of my life.
Tragically, the Nation of Israel, God’s people, have suffered through numerous judgments and calamities throughout their history. Interestingly, most of them began on the same day, the 9th of Av. So, with recent events in Israel church, friends and family continue to ask me, “What’s Going On and Why?” Thankfully, Pastor Gary Hamrick presented a video message recently that, in my opinion, is one of the BEST explanations about what’s going on concerning Israel and the End Times.
One of the best ways to support Israel and the Jewish people is by coming to Israel to Tour the Biblical sites for the first time or on a return trip. I recently authored Next Year in Jerusalem is Now - a book to ignite your interest in the Biblical sites you can see in Israel. The “Temple Mount” is the most significant Biblical site. The First and Second Temple was located there, and the Third Jewish Temple will be also. Therefore, to understand what the Bible says about the Third Temple, we must understand Daniel’s “70 7’s”[490 Years], the Most Significant prophecy in all of Scripture. Please consider my short commentary on the entire book of Daniel. I also hope God will open the door to share the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with your Jewish Friends.
In closing, I pray that all our impacting activities continue to open the door to people’s “hearts” and that we earn the right to have “conversations” and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I also pray that many will turn their “heart” from unbelief to Belief in the God of the Bible— the TRUE source of “transformation” and “eternal change.”
Read My Story and feel free to mail MichaelNAttar@aol.com.