Founded as a baptist mission in 1947 and officially incorporated in 1953, the church has multiple campuses located throughout metro Louisville.
[5] Dr. Kevin Ezell was then the senior pastor beginning in 1996 until he accepted the presidency of the North American Mission Board in the fall of 2010.
In addition to financial support, Highview sent missions teams to Philadelphia help the church plant launch and reach the community with the gospel.
The church was the focus of national attention in April 2005 when it hosted Justice Sunday, a rally where politically active conservative Evangelical Christians gathered to protest efforts by the United States Senate to filibuster conservative-leaning candidates for judgeships in the federal courts.
The event attracted leading members of the conservative Christian movement, including James Dobson and R. Albert Mohler, Jr.