The kitchen had pots of vegetable soup and hot cheese rolls on hand and 4WD vehicles for deliveries as necessary.
Pastor Tony Dudley said the chapel also had volunteers, including some secondary school pupils who had most of yesterday off, available with a truck and buckets to help people shift furniture or bail out properties inundated by flood water.
While demand was light yesterday with people coming in in "dribs and drabs all day", help and food would also be available today.
The Meat Workers' Union appealed to its members, after the Alliance Group's Pukeuri freezing works closed at 10am yesterday, to get a shovel and report at the Whitestone Contracting depot at Alma to help with the flooding.
Offers of help were received by the Oamaru Civil Defence headquarters, where up to 20 volunteers and council staff were working at various times.
Civil Defence also asked people to look out for their neighbours, particularly elderly residents.
