Recent TFT News

How T4T’s Admins Moderate the FB Page

Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa actively moderates the T4T Facebook page using general rules adapted from more traditional “BBS” and “forum” netiquette. Below are a few explanations and examples of situations where moderators of Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa FB may delete some posts and topics and why, on occasion, an individual or individuals must be banned from posting

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Volunteering, Heat and Your Health

T4T WANTS ALL THE VOLUNTEERS IN ALABAMA TO BE SAFE THIS SUMMER! STAY HEALTHY Y’ALL AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU’RE DOING. Introduction For many people, summertime means warm, comfortable days, perfect for eating outside or long walks during breaks from air-conditioned offices. But for Alabama volunteers working in clean-up during this summer event, summertime means

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Girl Power Fuels T4T’s Relief Effort

From day 1 women have been at the fore in this relief effort. While we applaud all those who have done so much in the past 3 weeks I personally want to give a shout-out to the WOMEN who’ve brought so much energy, talent and organization to this relief effort. I started looking at the statistics

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The Holt Community, Alabama

The Holt Community, near Tuscaloosa 21 days after the storm. We saw a few track-hoes, a few clean-up crews and one family who is starting to rebuild by themselves, but the scene was surprisingly lacking in visible help.

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T4T And Christian Service Mission

Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa would like to offer our most heartfelt thanks to the staff and volunteers here at Christian Service Mission for providing advice, logistical and facilities support as we grow our own donor and volunteer communities. Christian Service Mission, established in 1970 by Johnny Lynch, has been providing aid to the people of Birmingham

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Why They Work The Endless Hours…

Thousands of volunteers from all over the U.S. have come to Alabama to help clean, heal, and rebuild. All the stories are different, but the people who’ve come to help all share on thing, GRACE! It is the one thing that keeps us going. Grace fuels our hearts and our bodies, when we feel like

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