Bernt Berntsen Lomeland (1836 – 1900) was a Norwegian school teacher and lay minister who established The Community (Samfundet) in 1890.
In 1869 there was a split among Hammersmark's friends over the writings of Carl Olof Rosenius, and they had to leave the chapel, located at Gyldenløvesgate 70.
Lomeland became involved with the religious movement called the Strong Believers (Sterktroende) in Kristiansand.
But when a new altar book was introduced in 1889, that was the end: several Strong Believers in Helleland, Egersund, Søgne and Kristiansand resigned from the state church.
He continued the teachings of the Strong Believers, which were based on Knud Spødervold's 1848 book Guds nådes husholdning ('The Dispensation of God's Grace').