Cynthia Willingham

On weekends, Cynthia Willingham and her 7-year-old daughter Alicia head south to Garnett to visit family and Willingham's boyfriend, who farms there.

They typically pull back into Lawrence around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, stop home to unload their laundry and splash some water on their faces, then head straight to church.

They like to attend the 5:30 p.m. Sunday worship service at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 5700 W. Sixth St., because it fits perfectly into their weekend schedule.

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"We get to sit and unwind at church, and then we go back home," said Willingham, an administrative assistant in the German department at Kansas University."It's wonderful."

People have a lot of options when it comes to Sunday worship at St. Margaret's.Aside from the evening service, the Rev. Darrel Proffitt also leads the congregation in worship at 7:45 a.m., 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

And in order to accommodate those who wanted to watch the Final Four basketball game between KU and Maryland, the church moved its Easter vigil service to an earlier time in the day, so it would be over by tip-off.

After services, St. Margaret's played host to a TV-watching party in the church, with