The Wilderness Prayer Center, rural Bricelyn, will be hosting a National Day of Prayer event from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Everyone from southern Minnesota and northern Iowa is invited to attend. The theme for 2012 is “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,” Psalms 33:12. The website for the Prayer Center is www.wildernessprc.org for directions or call Ginny Ackland at 369-5302.

First Lutheran Church will be holding a prayer service for National Day of Prayer from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Everyone is invited.