About Melanie Pratt
Melanie began her career in radio when she joined the on-air staff at Praise 100.9 in 2006. She is a three-time Stellar Award nominee for Gospel Announcer of the Year, a preliminary judge for BET’s hit show Sunday Best, and has been recognized in Who’s Who in Black Charlotte. In 2013, she was an inaugural recipient of the Stellar Woman of Gospel Award for her contribution behind the scenes in the gospel industry. In 2015, she was awarded the 1st Melvin Crispell Gospel Heritage Award and was recognized as one of ten Most Influential Radio Personalities by the Gospel Music Industry Round-up. And in 2016 she was awarded Radio Show of The Year by the Queen City Music Awards. A self-proclaimed foodie - in particular tacos - and founder of the Foodie Flash Mob, Melanie had the pleasure of serving as judge of the Carolina Food Truck Chow Down. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Harvest Center, a transitional program for the homeless and underserved in Charlotte. Melanie is an ordained Elder in the Life Center Fellowship where she and her husband Bryan, serve as Young Adult Pastors.
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Alabama extended a few scholarship offers to recruits this weekend, but none more surprising than the one given to Dylan Moses, an eighth-grader from Baton Rouge, La. The 2017 prospect, who was also offered a scholarship by LSU last summer, made the trip to Tuscaloosa with his father, Edward Moses Jr. “When he heard those […]
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Quarterback Tim Tebow has canceled an appearance at the First Baptist Dallas Church, narrowly dodging certain public-image suicide. Pastor Robert Jeffress, who runs the megachurch, has had a few controversial opinions over the years about other religions and social issues – Muslims, Mormonism and homosexuality. Tebow, was slated to preach two sermons at the church’s new $130 […]
The Guardian is reporting that a woman named “Sally Donaldson” (not her real name) ended up transferring her monthly paycheck into someone else’s bank account by accident. The British hairdresser, and mother of two, thought she was transferring her paycheck into the joint account she shares with her hubby, but she was one number off […]
Linda Ackley went to Allegiance Hospital Friday morning thinking she had a hernia. By Friday night, she had given birth to a 10-pound baby. Not just a baby, a 10 POUNDER! It’s an amazing story when you hear about the couple. Linda and Mike are high school sweethearts that have been married 24 years and […]
It’s Valentine’s Week on Praise and we’re talking love and relationships! Bishop Kenneth Yelverton has an exciting new book out entitled “Sex and the Kingdom”. We chat with him and find out why it’s important for the Church to talk about Sex. Let’s Talk About Sex – Church Version
A Clarksville man said that he quit his job last week in order to save his soul. Walter Slonopas, 52, resigned as a maintenance worker at Contech Casting LLC in Clarksville after his W-2 tax form was stamped with the number 666. Slonopas said that after getting the W-2, he could either go to work […]
We chatted with Pastor Charles Jenkins on Tech Thursday about how technology benefits the church. Charles Jenkins Talks Technology
Patrick Dopson debuts his brand new video for “Keep Me” which chronicles the adoption process he and his wife endured.
via The Network Journal Did you know that the idea for a blood bank was created by a Black man? Inventor: Charles Richard Drew M.D. (1904-1950) Dr. Drew was a medical doctor and surgeon who created the idea of a blood bank and a system for the long-term preservation of blood plasma. His doctoral […]
–via Little Know Black History Facts Today is the birthday of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks. To honor the woman that left a significant mark in the civil rights movement, the U.S. Postal service will issue a special Forever Stamp with an image of Rosa Parks. It is part of their 2013 civil […]
And then there’s this… –via yahoo.com The Applebee’s waitress who posted a receipt with a note from a pastor complaining about the automatic gratuity added to the bill on the Internet was fired on Wednesday after the pastor complained to her manager. See Also: Colin Powell Checks O’Reilly: ‘Why Do You Only See Me As […]