With the theme of “Pray for America,” the annual National Day of Prayer will be observed Thursday at noon at the Farmers Market.The local event will be held in concert with thousands of other prayer assemblies across the nation which will pause at noon for a time of prayer. McMinnville’s Day of Prayer event usually lasts about 45 minutes. It’s time, organizer Rev. Jeff Page says, that will be well spent given the present state of the world and nation.“James 4 says that we have not because we ask not,” said Page of McMinnville Church of God and the McMinnville Ministerial Association.