Just a doodle to answer a question on the DragonScape Discord on "a Weird Idol" and one of the cultures in appalachia known as the "Preacher Tribal Culture" came up

The tribes across Appalachia are one of those cultures that had held on and warped their prepulse faith, in this case Baptism or the Baptist sect of Christianity which is actually pretty different
but anywho in the decades following the awakening the survivors of appalachia would slowly change their faiths to explain their new world
In the Appalachian perspective God has come through and taken the souls of the worthy, those who had struggled and thrashed against a world that had continued to alienate them into a higher realm. They consider themselves to be the forgiven of a species (humans) that had become awash in otherness and in straying from god.
God had centered the holiest of peoples in the sacred mountains of Appalachia (them of course) and would allow them to start a new world anew, a new era, a new people, a new start
god itself is not really worshipped directly though
As the drekir of the preacher tribes are more interested in 12 lesser gods that they have built a pantheon out of that they refer to as the Light Hollers or as it might more dialectally be said, "Emligholler"
The light hollers are how they interpret the Raddir of the night sky, associating similar shapes and movements in the skies to be various individual light hollers

They believe the light hollers are guardians sent to the sky from God (whom they believe lives in the sun) to help the drekir continue their journey of ascendancy
The 12 light hollers are their own gods, their own individuals, this pantheon over the past 50 years has seen a small smathering of locally told stories passed down within the villages, each village has its own stories about the light hollers and it is common for villages to have vastly different interpretations and feelings about different light hollers
one might hold 'Uner (the god of, you guessed it, hunting) as a holler of top importance and another one might thing 'Uner is potentially the god that killed their elder last night

Now lets talk about the Chapels
a Chapel is not a "chapel". They are religious shrines and idols that various villagers make in the forests around their village as prayer locations to the various light hollers. They are most commonly made from dead trees, when a dead tree is found and it is believed by the villagers to be in a religiously important location it is adorned with decorations and small carved statues From the branches are usually hung makeshift pendants with the symbolism of the light holler in question (this one being Breen, the holler about life and death) The drek statues at the bottom are symbolic of the drekir being "lesser angels" and looking upwards in worship to the light holler.
It is also common to mark these trees from a distance with a good ol cross leaned onto the tree, mounted onto the dead tree or in this case jammed into the hollow top (what a pain to get up there)
It is these chapels where a village will go to preach and pray
If a drek needs something from a specific holler, lets say for example their friend twisted their ankle and they want to pray to the holler of "Fid" to help them heal they will go into the forest and find that chapel and it is there that they pray

once a few moons a drek within the village will designate themselves a preacher, drink some powerful Moonlight (a heavy stimulant made from fermented corn, lightning mana, and the venom of the appalachian tallslither snake). Usually throwing themselves into a bit of a religious fervor they will start a preaching session, while not seen here (no preacher in a drug fueled preaching rage) it is common for the preacher and those listening in to fall into a howling, barking, loud and yipping few hours screaming to the holler that chapel represents
But back to praying
as thats something someone might do on a casual afternoon
Praying can be sitting quietly, but it is often a very loud affair. Drekir in preacher tribal culture are encouraged to bark and yip out their prayers freely as "you have nothing to hide". Quiet praying is typically reserved for a drek praying about more private matters
but on a busy day minus the preacher a chapel may have a couple dozen drekir from the local village all barking and yipping their prayers at the dead tree in their reptilian rattly voices