A Gifts in Kind(GIK) Distribution Center-Pitt County evolved from efforts to provide relief to flood victims following Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce partnered with TCM to meet the membership requirement for GIK and funded the TCM warehouse for numerous years totaling nearly $100,000.
Friendship Baptist Church (Charlotte, NC), Wake Chapel Church (Raleigh, NC), 5th Baptist Church, (Richmond, VA) and a church as far as California, sent tractor trailers packed with goods for flood victims and other needy persons in our region. Organizations similar to GIK from Galesburg, IL and Greensboro, NC donated items from their distribution centers, as well as, many others. Meals and housing were provided for volunteers who came to the area to provide relief. Local industries,NAACO, TRW and Empire Brush supplied equipment and cleaning items.
Numerous relationships were forged during the Flood of 1999, that were should this word be orignally under the umbrella of TCM. Perhaps one of the most significant, is the one fostered with PNBC. Their president brought Rev. Jesse Jackson with him when he visited Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church. During that visit, a radio personality from a Baltimore, MD radio station did a live broadcast from Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church. The City of Greenville recognized TCM and Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church with the 2001 Best-Irons Humanitarian Award.
Reverend Sidney Locks, Jr, the original face of TCM and senior pastor at Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church, visited Louisiana in 2005. As a result, TCM facilitated a shipment of 23 pallets of items that included mattresses, shoes, clothing and water to residents devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
A more recent disaster outreach involved donating bottled water and to the youth of Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church allowing them to send aid to the residents of Flint, MI.