Steve Higginbotham is a native of West Virginia. He graduated from Freed-Hardeman University in 1984. It was there that he met his wife, Kim (Pierce) Higginbotham. Steve and Kim have four children and three grandchildren. Steve has been preaching full-time since 1984 and has been serving as the pulpit minister for the Karns congregation in Knoxville, TN since 2009.