It would be easy to dwell on what was lost in the fire at Trinity Episcopal Church last week.

The church will require major repairs after Wednesday’s suspected arson. So for now, other churches have offered space for Trinity to hold services. This Sunday, the congregation met at the First United Methodist Church on Northwest Bond Street, in downtown Bend.

While church members acknowledged the pain caused by the fire that damaged portions of their historic church, they also discussed opportunities to turn that experience into something positive.

“We have been wounded, but you probably know better than I do, we have not been broken,” Rector Rev. Roy Green told the congregation on Sunday. Green suggested the congregation “take whatever pain has come from this event, and translate it into something good.”

As Green delivered the sermon, he was not wearing his usual ecclesiastical vestments. Those were in the church and likely burned in the fire.

So instead, Green dressed simply in a brown windbreaker and navy slacks. For communion, Green put on a purple stole borrowed from a friend.

Roughly 200 people filled the sanctuary for the Episcopal service Sunday. Green said members of the congregation would probably see some new people at the service, and some people came from as far away as Madras and Sisters. In order for the Episcopalians to have a service in the Methodist sanctuary, the Methodist congregation held its first service of the morning in a nearby community room.

Investigators believe that an arsonist, or arsonists, set a total of seven fires in the Trinity church buildings and along an alley between St. Helens Place and Jefferson Place early Wednesday morning. In addition to the church, the flames burned two cars, two garages and a woodpile. Agencies working on the case include the Bend police and fire departments, Oregon State Police, Oregon State Fire Marshal and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Bend police are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

Peter Lovering, Trinity’s senior warden, gave a status update on the church building Sunday.

“I don’t think we will be back in there for at least a year,” Lovering said of the main church. Another church building — St. Helens Hall, or “the annex,” — might be repaired within several months, Lovering said.

However, the church has temporarily moved its meals program, known as the Family Kitchen, to the First United Methodist Church, and Green said it hasn’t missed a meal on its regular schedule.

After the service, Lovering said the message he took away from the service is “we can make it through this, and we’ll get through it with each other’s support.”

Lovering said he also hopes the community will support other people in the neighborhood who suffered losses due to the fires.

Terri Rahmsdorff, a member of the church management team known as the vestry, said after the service that the fire is a reminder of what is important, and much of the church’s mission happens outside the sanctuary.

“I think today is a new beginning,” she said. “It’s a chance … to think about what’s really important, and act on it.”

Rahmsdorff said church leaders made it a priority to continue operating the Family Kitchen despite the fire damage. This is more of a logistical challenge than finding a place to hold a Sunday worship service.

“If you’ve got a bunch of chairs, we can have a service,” Rahmsdorff said. “But it’s a major effort to coordinate those meals.”

Green said Trinity will remain a resource for the community.

“The people who look to Trinity, the church with the red doors, know we’re there for them,” Green said.