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Kenny Hughes
Class of 2025
About
I am from Dallas but have now lived several years in San Antonio. While this is only my third year at St. Mark’s, I feel as though I have been at home here much longer. At the UT medical center, I am a pathologist and medical school professor. At home, I enjoy playing on piano the works of Chopin, Brahms and Debussy. And I sometimes hop on the drums too, but don’t expect a drum solo anytime soon.
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I participate in our spiritual life at St. Mark’s by being a volunteer singer in the adult choir here at St. Mark’s. Because sacred music has always been a very strong source for my faith, giving my voice to the choir is a way I share with my parish and visitors to our church. Coming together to serve; those four words are to me what the choir does. And those same four words describe how I felt by participating on the Renewal Works panel. The latter experience was a continuous cycle of listening, prayer, and reflection with spurts of inspiration and inquiry. On vestry, I may follow that same pattern of service and hope to step into more leadership roles as needed.
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Reflecting on our core vocation, I can’t help but think of the theme, Rooted but Restless. Feeding the hungry with real food is pragmatically the most difficult vocation of the three to support. I would envision the vestry would look at how St. Mark’s has approached this vocation in years past. I am confident that St. Mark’s service to the feed the hungry is rooted in great places. The vestry may have to trust the strength of those roots at times and keep an open mind for how the church might find new ways to achieve this vocation. I envision that we will trust God, our leadership, and one another for making these movements.
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I am continually drawn to our sacred space, the people and the spiritual community. The church itself is a building where I can encounter holiness. The clergy are centers of trust and guidance. Being in community with a parish who seeks God in their lives is the primary reason I come back to St. Mark’s each week.