Non-Staff Pastor

Juan Treviño serves as a Pastor at Sandy Ridge Baptist Church. He grew up in a Christian home, with his mother serving as the spiritual leader of the home and a lukewarm father. He came to faith as a young boy in 1999, when the gospel was made clear to him—revealing his condemned state and his need for salvation found only in the redeeming work of Christ on the cross.

The churches he grew up in, though doctrinally sound, placed a greater emphasis on how Christians ought to behave than on seeing Christian behavior as the fruit of the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, who changes our affections and desires. This emphasis yielded a lifeless religiosity marked by either pride or despair, with little to no fruit.

This works-centered approach was most amplified throughout high school and during his time at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where it produced a strained, weary, and decadent life that was self-reliant rather than marked by the joyful obedience and fruit that flow from the power of the Holy Spirit.

Juan met his wife in 2012 while attending Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, where he was stationed as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. They now have six children. That church was pivotal in Juan’s life, bringing to light his atrophied faith. There, he was first met with a biblical understanding of the ongoing sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, who makes sin more detectable and more detestable, yielding an ever-growing desire for holiness and love for God and His commands. 

It is Juan’s desire to see all men faithfully lead their homes and for all members to grow in holiness and maturity to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Juan and his family relocated to Hickory from Savannah in 2022. Since then, he has served the church as a member, deacon, and now pastor. He works for a heavy civil demolition company and enjoys spending his free time with his church family.