About Melissa Wade

Melissa Wade-Cutler is a native of North Carolina, where she was born and raised. She is the wife of Darryl and the mother of two beautiful children, daughter Darius and son Matthew. She attended the University of Carolina in Chapel Hill where she received her B.A. in Communications. She began her radio career in 1991 at WFXC in Durham. She has also worked with WQOK in Raleigh and WAMO in Pittsburgh, PA as a morning show co-host.

Currently, you can hear Melissa Monday – Friday at the midday from 10am – 3pm on The Light 103.9, where she is widely known as Melissa “Wade in the Water.” Melissa has been on the radio for over 25 years and is well known by her listeners and in the community. You can often find Melissa out in the community speaking at different events or even walking for some of her favorite causes.

Melissa also has a love for the stage and is the Owner/CEO of “Wade in the Water” Productions. She has performed in various plays, and musicals, written and directed her own stage plays as well as others under her business umbrella “Wade In The Water, LLC.” She conducts and acting camp for kids every summer; which teaches and features participating youth in an actual play presentation of acting and dance. You can read more about Melissa and upcoming events on her website at wadeinthewaterproductions.com

Melissa is a Sr. Elder at Kingdom Community International in Bahama, NC, where she oversees the Arts department which includes: dance, step, mime, flag and a drama department.

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This year Unity in the Community will have a Green Zone! You will be able to bring those items that you no longer used to be recycled! Check out the list of accepted items!

Lowell Pye used to sing with the award winning group Men Of Standard and will perform Saturday at Unity In The Community. Listen to his interview with Melissa.

Rashelle Brooks is heading a community Job seeker event to help those who need help in building their resumes and other job seeking skills on Saturday Sept. 11th at Shaw University – Spaulding Gym. Call (919) 247-9479. … Listen to the interview for more details

President Barack Obama is urging a Florida minister to “listen to those better angels” and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.

  The Pastor of a small Florida church said yesterday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.

As her song says "I'm Still Here" and she is. Queen of Gospel's surgery went well and she is off the ventilator.