Delivering hope
to deep valleys
Holcomb Ministries provides intentional support to families facing
the emotional, financial, and logistical challenges of a NICU stay.
NICU families, let us support you.
Want to give to our mission?
Join us in serving families.
Financial
assistance
Housing reimbursement and resources if a family lives 50+ miles from the hospital.
Gas gift cards to ease the burden of the back and forth.
Parking stipends for families at hospitals that don’t cover parking costs.
Therapy equipment donated directly to hospitals and NICU grads (helments, wonderfold wagons, gtube and trach equipment and more).
Blessing
Bags & Boxes
We deliver gift bags & boxes stuffed with help and hope, nationally distributed as way of “sitting with” families at their babies’ bedsides containing:
toiletries for the unexpected hospital stay
snacks & electrolyte drinks for the nursing and pumping mama
a prayer print
a parent devotional & book to read over their baby
FAMILY Counseling
10 virtual counseling sessions per caregiver with our partner Christian counselors.
Rooted in our own experience in counseling and the healing it brings to family
Available to moms, dads or couples together
Learn more here
About us
What We Do
“Holcomb” means deep valley.
Our ministry provides intentional support to families facing the emotional, financial, and logistical challenges of a NICU stay.
We long to meet families’ practical needs and point them to the hope of Christ’s nearness.
After 160 days as NICU parents in Birmingham, AL, Paul and Catherine Barber know the isolation, anxiety, and exhaustion that caregivers endure.
Though the parents aren’t the patients, we know they need overwhelming support as they’re the ones who will remember their child’s entrance into the world.
We believe that no family should be left to navigate a hospital journey alone.
Now on the other side, together the Barbers started Holcomb Ministries to accompany moms, dads, and caretakers navigating their own deep valley.
Whether a family has been in the NICU for a few hours or for months, as every baby’s situation is so different, we long to care for each individual family’s unique needs. We know God is with them every step of the way.
We encourage everyone to love their neighbor in the NICU through Holcomb Ministries.
About the barbers
Our story
Paul and Catherine once clenched tightly to their own plans and expectations, but with the unexpected preterm delivery of their second daughter at 22 weeks and 3 days, came the realization that God ordains our days and is sovereign over each of our life’s journeys. Upon finding out they were in high-risk labor, they prayed the verses of Psalm 23 that God would be glorified through her life, not knowing whether they would have a few minutes, an hour, a day, a week, a month, or a lifetime with their child. The Lord went before them every moment of their uncertain days.
It wasn’t until after their NICU journey that they realized their daughter’s middle name Holcomb means “deep valley” (hol: ‘deep’; comb: ‘valley’). It’s the overflow of their hearts to serve and love families who have been in their shoes.
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
