The clock was ticking when the board of trustees of the Family Kitchen met Wednesday morning to figure how to pull together lunch for the 100 to 150 people the organization serves on a typical day.

Hours earlier, a fire had torn through the home of the Family Kitchen, 231 N.W. Idaho Ave., one of seven blazes that sprang up suddenly after 2 a.m. in the neighborhood just south of downtown Bend. While police and fire investigators picked through the wreckage, board President Pat Roden and her fellow board members worked the phones in a temporary headquarters across the street in the old Bend Library.

Roden said the group managed to secure donations from Bend’s four Subway restaurants in time for the regularly scheduled 11 a.m. lunch.

The Family Kitchen served up sandwiches from the back of a pickup just beyond the yellow tape that sealed off much of the area throughout the day.

The generosity kept coming. Servicemaster provided a generator for the Family Kitchen to keep the five freezers and three refrigerators inside the building running, Roden said, and the United Methodist Church, 680 N.W. Bond St., offered a space for the Family Kitchen to resume serving hot meals today.

“We have been really fortunate in that the community has really pulled together to help us serve our clients for the next 48 hours, and we’re really excited about it,” Roden said. She said Family Kitchen turned down offers to relocate its four weekly lunches and two weekly dinners to Bend’s Community Center and the Bethlehem Inn.

The Family Kitchen is just one of several community groups displaced by the fires at Trinity Episcopal Church’s Trinity Hall, 469 N.W. Wall St., and its annex, a former Lutheran church on Idaho Avenue now known as St. Helens Hall. By the estimates of Roden and Trinity Episcopal rector the Rev. Roy Green, roughly 400 people a day visit the two buildings for reasons beyond worship — everything from hot meals to drug and alcohol counseling to daylong meetings of homeschooled students.

Green said that in addition to taking in the Family Kitchen, United Methodist has offered space for his congregation to conduct worship services “indefinitely,” though he said it’s unclear how long that might be. Green said police told him early Wednesday that he could go inside to inspect the damage in either building after 24 to 48 hours. Until that happens, he can only guess how long it might take to rebuild.

Trinity Episcopal has offered its space to different groups for a small donation to cover the cost of utilities, Green said, and by doing so has attracted so many users, even he doesn’t know them all.

“It almost takes a schedule or an Excel sheet to show you what goes on here,” he said. “Trinity is never dark; it’s a busy place, like a church ought to be.”

Lt. Rex Wolf of the High Desert Squadron Civil Air Patrol said his was the last group on the Trinity Episcopal campus Tuesday night.

“When I heard the news, I thought, ‘Oh my God, we didn’t leave something on, did we?’” Wolf said.

Wolf said his group will be less affected than most that have relied on Trinity Episcopal’s generosity. The Civil Air Patrol group only meets every other week, Wolf said, and will likely be looking for an alternative location.

A representative of Central Oregon Alcoholics Anonymous said — anonymously — that two of the three groups that meet at the church daily have made temporary arrangements. The 7 a.m. group will cancel its meeting today but move to the Sons of Norway Lodge on Harmon Boulevard, while the noon group will be relocating to the Discovery Christian Church on Newport Avenue.

The representative said a group that meets at 5:30 p.m. has not yet found a home.

“A lot of people have been really helpful,” the representative said. “Right now it’s just so fresh, we’re sort of regrouping and trying to figure out where we’re going.”

The Deschutes County Library system has offered space to some groups that were housed at Trinity Episcopal or the annex. Director Todd Dunkelberg said beyond providing the Family Kitchen board with a place to strategize on Wednesday morning, police and fire investigators used the library to interview witnesses. The library will provide a temporary home to child and family counselors working with Lutheran Community Services.

Lutheran Community Services Director Scott Willard said the group has two counselors at the annex practically full-time, working largely with children who have been physically or sexually abused.

“Trinity provides an incredible gift to the community by providing incubator space for outreach ministries, and that’s what I’d consider my office,” he said “Were going to really struggle to afford a space if we can’t continue at Trinity.”