Pastor Steve Cornwall was born in Kingston, Jamaica, but grew up in the parish of St. Elizabeth, where he was baptized at the tender age of nine and started his ministry as a lay preacher at age fifteen.
In 2015 he accepted a call to the Turks & Caicos Island to serve as pastor of the French-speaking congregations in Providenciales and later that year he was voted as the Executive Secretary of the Turks & Caicos Islands Mission.
He is married to Kissia Cornwall, née Thomas and their marriage has produced two boys: Matthew and Marc.
On December 2, 2018 at the Inaugural Conference Session of the Turks and Caicos Islands Conference, he was voted as the first President of the Conference