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MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES ISLANDS OF 2020 OFFICIAL HURRICANE SHELTERS (UPDATED AS AT 27TH JULY, 2020)

ABACO, CENTRAL DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Friendship Tabernacle Marsh Harbour

ABACO, NORTH DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Faith Walk Church of God, Community Centre Cooper’s Town

ABACO, SOUTH DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Assemblies of God Church Cherokee Sound 2. Crossing Rocks Primary School Crossing Rocks 3. Moore’s Island All Age School Moore’s Island 4. Sandy Point Community Centre Earnest Dean Highway 5. Soul Seeking Ministry Moore’s Island

ACKLINS NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Chester’s Bay Hurricane Shelter Chester’s Bay 2. Joshua Kingdom Ministries Pine Field 3. Spring Point Community Centre Spring Point

ANDROS, CENTRAL DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Bowen Sound Pentecostal Church Bowen Sound 2. Church of God Cargill Creek 3. Clarence A. Bain Building Fresh Creek 4. Highway Church of God Blanket Sound 5. Miracle Revival International Calabash Bay 6. Mt. Ethel Baptist Love Hill 7. St. Bartholomew’s Anglican Church Behring Point 8. Stafford Creek Primary School Stafford Creek

ANDROS, DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Burnt Rock Primary Burnt Rock 2. Mangrove Cay High School Swains, Mangrove Cay 3. St. Peters Baptist Church Little Harbour, Mangrove Cay

ANDROS, NORTH DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. B. A. Newton Primary School Red Bays 2. BAMSI Building Barr Community 3. Church of God of Prophesy North Mastic Point 4. Clara Evans Primary School Nicholls Town 5. First Baptist Church San Andros

ANDROS, SOUTH DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Cleola McKenzie Pre-School Long Bay 2. Euthal Rodgers Primary School Deep Creek 3. Friendship Baptist Church The Bluff 4. Mount Olive Baptist Church Smith’s Hill 5. St. Roberts Catholic Church High Rock 6. The Doctor’s Residence (Special Needs Clinic) The Bluff

BERRY ISLANDS, GREAT HARBOUR CAY NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Church of God of Prophecy Bullocks Harbour

BIMINI NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. United Burial Society Hall Alice Town 2. Gateway Gymnasium Bailey Town

CAT ISLAND NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church New Bight 2. Lovely Zion Baptist Church The Bluff 3. Mt. Sanai Baptist Church Douds 4. Seaview Seventh Day Adventist Church Wilson Bay 5. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Arthur’s Town 6. St. Mark’s Anglican Church Port Howe 7. Zion Baptist Church McQueen’s 8. Zion Baptist Church Old Bight

CROOKED ISLAND & LONG CAY NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. All Saints Anglican Church, Priest Residence (Colonel Hill and Church Grove Residents) Church Grove, Crooked Island 2. Church of God of Prophecy (Landrail Point, Richmond, Moss Town and Cripple Hill, Crooked Island Cripple Hill Residents) 3. Command Centre Administrator’s Residence/Local Government Colonel Hill, Crooked Island Building 4. Ezekiel Thompson Hall (Cabbage Hill, Timber Hill and Fair Field Cabbage Hill, Crooked Island Residents) 5. Kenneth Farquharson's Residence (Long Cay Residents) Albert Town, Long Cay

ELEUTHERA, CENTRAL DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Camp Symonette James Cistern, Gregory Town 2. Church of The Nazarene Palmetto Point 3. Emily G. Petty Primary School Governor’s Harbour 4. George E. Johnson Hatchet Bay 5. The Salvation Army Palmetto Point 6. Wesley Methodist Church Hall Palmetto Point

ELEUTHERA, NORTH DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 7. Charles Wesley Methodist Church Lower Bogue 8. John Wesley Methodist Church The Bluff 9. Mission Church of God Upper Bogue 10. New Jerusalem Church Blackwood 11. The Current Community Centre The Current 12. The Haitian Baptist People Church The Bluff 13. Zion Methodist Church Current Island

ELEUTHERA, SOUTH DISTRICT NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Church of God of Prophecy Tarpum Bay 2. Deep Creek Primary School Deep Creek 3. Green Castle Primary School Green Castle 4. Rock Sound Primary School Rock Sound 5. St. Mary the Virgin Church Bannerman Town 6. Wemyss Bight Primary School Wemyss Bight

EXUMA NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Bethel Union Baptist Church Ramsey 2. Calvary Mission Baptist Church Rolleville 3. Ebenezer Union Baptist Church Farmer’s Hill 4. Ebenezer Union Baptist Church Barraterre 5. Resource Centre Hoopers’ Bay 6. Mt. Herman Union Baptist Church Mt. Thompson 7. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Staniel Cay 8. Mt. Sinai Union Baptist Church Stuart Manor 9. Palestine Union Baptist Church The Forest 10. St. Andrew’s Community Centre George Town 11. St. Luke’s Baptist Church and/or Airport Black Point Terminal 12. St. Margaret’s Anglican Church Harts/Steventon 13. St. Mary’s Anglican Church Williams Town 14. St. Mary’s Union Baptist Church Little Farmer’s Cay 15. St. Matthew’s Union Baptist Church The Ferry 16. St. Peter’s Union Baptist Church Forbes’ Hill 17. St. Theresa’s Catholic Church George Town 18. The New Mt. Olive Union Baptist Church Hartswell

FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Bethel Baptist Church Pine Dale, Eight Mile Rock 2. Central Zion Baptist Church Pine Dale, Eight Mile Rock 3. Church of Ascension Hall Freeport 4. First Baptist Church Freeport 5. Christ The King Anglican Church Hall Freeport 6. Life Community Church Freeport 7. Shiloh Seventh-Day Adventist Church Freeport 8. Calvary Temple Church Freeport 9. Central Church of God Hall Freeport

HARBOUR ISLAND NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Harbour Island Public Library Harbour Island 2. Lighthouse Church of God Harbour Island 3. New Alliance Church of God Harbour Island 4. Wesley Methodist Church Harbour Island

INAGUA NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. New Life Seventh-Day Adventist Church Matthew Town 2. St. Phillips Anglican Community Centre Matthew Town 3. Zion Baptist Church Matthew Town

LONG ISLAND NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Assemblies of God Salt Pond 2. Community Centre Clarence Town 3. Highway Church of God Doctors Creek 4. Holy Cross Anglican Church Hamilton’s 5. Holy Family Anglican Church Mortimer’s 6. Salem Baptist Church Miller’s 7. St. John’s Anglican Church Buckley’s

MAYAGUANA NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Abraham's Bay Primary School Abraham’s Bay 2. Pirate's Well Primary School Pirate’s Well

NEW PROVIDENCE NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Agape Full Gospel Baptist Church Kennedy Subdivision 2. Berea Seventh-Day Adventist Church Baillou Hill Road South 3. Canon Neil E. Roach Hall, Holy Cross Anglican Highbury Park Church 4. Centreville Seventh-Day Adventist Church Fifth Terrace 5. Church of God Convention Centre (for use by SRC) Joe Farrington Road 6. Ebenezer Mission Baptist Evangelistic Church St. Charles Vincent Street 7. Epworth Hall, Ebenezer Methodist Church (for use by Homeless and People with Physical Shirley Street Disabilities) 8. Grants Town Seventh-Day Adventist Church Wellington Street 9. Hillview Seventh-Day Adventist Church Tonique Williams Darling Highway 10. Maranatha Seventh-Day Adventist Church Prince Charles Drive 11. New Bethlehem Baptist Church Independence Drive 12. New Dimensions Ministries Joe Farrington Road 13. Community Centre Blake Road 14. Pil grim Baptist Temple St. James Road 15. Remnant Tabernacle of Praise Carmichael Road 16. Rev. Dr. O. A. Pratt Educational Building, St. John’s Native Baptist Church Augusta and Meeting Streets 17. Samuel and Cornella Williams Community Centre, The Salvation Army Meadow Street 18. Southwest Cathedral Church of God Carmichael Road 19. The Anglican Church of the Epiphany Prince Charles Drive 20. The Salvation Army Mackey Street

RAGGED ISLAND NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Holy Innocents Anglican Church Duncan Town

SAN SALVADOR AND NO. NAME OF SHELTER ADDRESS 1. Fellowship in Christ Kingdom Ministry Cockburn Town 2. Grace Research Center United Estates Settlement 3. Idell Jones Community Hall, St. Augustine Church Cockburn Town Hall 4. Rum Cay All Age School Port Nelson 5. St. James Native Baptist Church North Victoria Hill © 17/7/2020 DOSS, Disaster Management Unit

Please note that this list is subject to change; if necessary.

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