Our kids were "raised in the halls of the church" quite literally. At one point when the boys were babies we had cribs in the church office. When Savanna was born we continued the tradition of "raising our kids in the ministry" and she used to do hospital visits with us all the time. Her favorite ones were when she would get to see the newborn babies. I'll never forget her favorite little baby doll, Tieler. She named him Tieler because when we pastored in Maryland, one of the ladies in the church, Anna Anderson, had her baby boy Tieler and we went to see them in the hospital. Savanna was with us on the hospital visit and she just loved him to pieces and so she ended up naming her new doll Tieler. She took that doll everywhere. When we went out she would push Tieler in a stroller. One time she accidently left him in the car after we came in from shopping and cried and cried that we needed to go back and get him but it was pouring down rain - thunde
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