AMERICAN CROSS OPENS ADDITIONAL SHELTERS

GREATER HOUSTON AREA RED CROSS OPENS ADDITIONAL SHELTERS FOR RESIDENTS WHOSE HOMES WERE DAMAGED BY HURRICANE IKE

The following shelters are open:

Brazoria County
1st Presbyterian Church
130 S. Arcola
Angleton, Texas 77515

First Assembly Church
601 S. Market St.
Brazoria, Texas 77422

Chambers County
American Legion Hall
1704 S. Main
Anahuac, Texas 77514

Winnie Stowell
Community Center
202 S. Park
Winnie, TX 77665

Harris County
Bayshore Baptist
111315 Spenser Hwy
La Porte, Texas 77571


Bear Creek United Methodist
16000 Rippling Water Drive
Houston, Texas 77084

Champions Life Center
3131 FM 2920
Spring, Texas 77388

ChristBridge Fellowship Church
29510 Tomball Parkway
Tomball, Texas 77375

Grace Fellowship UMC
2655 South Mason Rd
Katy, Texas 77450

Greater St. Matthew Church
14919 S. Main Houston, Texas 77035

Memorial Baptist
611 Sterling
Baytown, Texas 77520

Wooster Baptist Church
7007 Bayway Drive
Baytown, Texas 77250

Liberty
Calvary Baptist Church
816 Blair
Cleveland, Texas 77327

First Baptist of Dayton
202 East Houston
Dayton, Texas 77535

Polk County
Church on the Rock
1221 Hwy 59 SLivingston, Texas 77351

Walker County
Fellowship of Huntsville
Church
3895 Hwy 30 West
Huntsville, Texas 77340


For current Shelter List information go to www.houstonredcross.org and 1-800 RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

People coming to Red Cross shelters should bring: Pillows and bedding; diapers and formula for your children; prescription medicines; toiletries; food to meet any special dietary needs they may have. These current shelters can not accommodate pets.

To help people reconnect after a disaster, we encourage evacuees to register with the Red Cross website Safe and Well, www.safeandwell.org. Evacuees’ friends and family can check the website and know they are safe.


You can help the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year, disasters like the Hurricanes of 2008, by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. You can log-on to www.redcross.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish) to make a donation. You can also use your cell phone to donate $5 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund by text messaging they keyword "GIVE" to "2HELP" (24357). You can send multiple donations depending on your carrier. Contributions will appear on monthly bills or be debited from a pre-paid account balance. All applicable text rates apply.