Mary Ellen and Nathan Baxter met the then South African bishop in the mid-1980s as he stopped for a speaking engagement at St. Paul's Episcopal College in Virginia. Their relationship only grew stronger over the decades to come.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and The Right Rev. Nathan Baxter shared the stage at the Zembo Auditorium in Harrisburg on Oct. 21, 2006. Baxter was installed as the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania. Almost 5,000 attended the ceremony. Mary Ellen and Nathan Baxter remember the first time they met Desmond Tutu, then a bishop from South Africa whose profile was just beginning to rise at that point in the mid-1980s.
He would also speak in October 2006 at the Zembo Auditorium in Harrisburg at Baxter’s consecration as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania. Close to 5,000 clergy and laity from the 24-county diocese and beyond gathered for the ceremony, according to a story in The Patriot-News. One of those visits came during Christmas 2000, where he was scheduled to speak at a millennial celebration being held at the cathedral despite a flare-up of his prostate cancer. Tutu brought along his wife, several of his daughters and other family members for the event and they all stayed with the Baxters. “It was a wonderful time together. My wife went to check on him the next morning and he was so ill she rushed him to the hospital and spent the time with him and the doctors there.
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