Churches

Church buildings in Lomweland do not look much like American church buildings! Believers in Lomweland may meet in homes, under trees, in a "pole-barn" (a structure with a roof but no walls), in a rented school, or in a mud brick building with a grass roof. Of the few hundred churches, maybe a dozen have buildings with metal roofing. The International Mission Board does not fund construction of church buildings or purchase of metal roofs, so the buildings are indigenous, and the style is reproducible without outside assistance. The members of these indigenous churches are learning to be less concerned with outward appearances and more focused on spiritual growth.