1.  What is the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation? 

2.  What is the Congressional Prayer Caucus calling on Americans of all faiths to do?

3.  Why are these Congressmen calling for prayer?

4.  What are they asking Americans to pray for?

5.  Why does the group Americans United for Separation of Church and State oppose the Congressional Prayer Caucus?

6.  Which group do you agree with - the praying Congressmen or the Americans United for Separation of Church and State?  Explain your answer.
Visit the Congressional Prayer Caucus website at prayercaucus.org.)

7.  OPTIONAL:  Many presidents have called on Americans to pray for our country, including:

• Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Americans to join him in a prayer for the soldiers fighting at Normandy on D-Day. Read the prayer here.
• Abraham Lincoln signed a Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day. Read the proclamation here.
• During the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Benjamin Franklin said the following in a speech:
  "The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks attendance & continual reasonings with each other-our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes and ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, some we have been running about in search of it. ...................
  I therefore beg leave to move-that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of the City be requested to officiate in that service."

Research instances where Congressmen have called on Americans to pray for our country in the past.