Michelle's "home church" is the Basileia Community, a young Vineyard church in the Los Angeles area, pastored by David & Anita Ruis.

Michelle is currently the Worship Leader at the Tujunga United Methodist Church as well as the Sunland/Tujunga Healing Rooms.

Born in Northern California and raised in both the (very rural) Rio Grande Valley of Texas and (moderately rural) central Indiana, Michelle Higgs attended both private Christian and public schools throughout her elementary and high school education. She attended the University of the Nations Academy of Performing Arts in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada where she met her husband of almost 19 years. The first two years of their marriage were spent in England, her husband's native country. They have lived in the Los Angeles area since 1989.

Michelle's hobbies include reading, swimming, drama, creative writing and music (listening, playing piano and singing). She enjoys travel and has been blessed with the opportunities to travel while being on missionary outreaches both locally and internationally (Belize, Guatemala, England and Canada). During her 1984 Los Angeles Olympics trip with YWAM, she even stayed with a family in Tujunga area, never dreaming that several years later God would call her back to that same area! Her desire is to see genuine hunger for the Lord grow in the hearts of those around her. This means using whatever talents the Lord has given her, in the setting He has placed her in, to be mightily used by Him for His glory.

Michelle also leads worship on occasions at the Hollywood Healing Rooms, the Hollywood International House of Prayer, Sunland Vineyard & Basileia Community.