Lydia Meredith is the owner of Beacon Hope Renaissance Learning Center. She was married to Reverend Dennis A. Meredith, who has twenty-nine years of pastoral experience and is openly gay-bisexual and leading a congregation of over 1000 members many of them lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. She and the pastor divorced in 2007 but have remained close friends. Lydia and their three sons currently serve with him at the church.