Dannie Carter has a soft, dry voice. "It’s all just praising God," he says. "It don’t matter what kind of building you have. The building is not God. God is inside of you. This is just a structure where we gather to worship God." 
For Carter, the structure is the Rodeway Inn on East Broadway where Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church has met for three years.
Come Sunday mornings, you can go to the motel’s Terrace Room for breakfast or take a right down the corridor to the Illinois Room for spiritual nourishment.
Christ the Solid Rock is one of a dozen or so area churches that meet in non-traditional places: a motel, public schools, a movie theater, a health club, a city hall, a strip mall. Congregations range from more than 1,000 members to as few as 40. Some are renting with an eye toward a bricks-and-mortar home of their own. Others are nomads by choice. Read more of this story.
Sidebar story: Building a congregation, not a congregation building, comes first