About Us
We are a Christ-centered church family, renewed by grace and committed to reaching our city with the hope of Jesus.
Our Mission
To glorify God by making disciples of Jesus in West Palm Beach and beyond, building a Christ centered church family that lives the gospel, loves our neighbors, and sends believers to serve.
Our History
Belvedere Baptist Church has been serving West Palm Beach and the surrounding areas for more than 65 years, sharing the hope of Jesus and seeking to love our community with the gospel in both word and deed. For the past 30 years, the Lord faithfully used Pastor Dr. Ray Henry to shepherd our church family through seasons of growth, discipleship, and steady gospel ministry.
In December of 2024, Pastor Ray Henry passed away, and our church entered a meaningful season of prayer, grieving, and seeking God’s direction for the next chapter. After a careful search, the congregation joyfully voted in Rajiv Khatri as our Senior Pastor in November of 2025. Today, we are grateful for our history and excited for what God is doing now as we pursue renewal, deepen discipleship, and our area in fresh and faithful ways.
“To be loved but not known is superficial. To be known but not loved is our nightmare. Only Jesus knows us to the bottom and loves us to the sky.”
Tim Keller
Our Distinctive Values
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Jesus First
We do not play church. We submit to Jesus, treasure His Word, and depend on the gospel for salvation and growth.
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Gospel Formed
The gospel reshapes the whole person, our beliefs, our loves, our habits, our work, and our relationships.
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Grace-Centered
We welcome imperfect people and depend on Jesus, not performance. Grace gives us room to be honest, repent, heal, and grow together.
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Life Together
Christian growth happens best in community. We commit to honesty, shared lives, and mutual care.
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Sent People
Every Christian is called to mission. We expect God to save the lost through ordinary faithfulness in everyday places.
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Multiplication
We make disciples, raise leaders, and equip church planters, sending believers to serve so the gospel reaches West Palm Beach and the nations.
We believe the gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ lived the life we could not live, died the death we deserved, and rose again to make sinners right with God by grace alone through faith alone. This grace does not just forgive us, it changes us, shaping how we worship, love, repent, forgive, serve, and live for God’s glory in everyday life.
What We Believe
Our Beliefs
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There is one God who eternally exists in three equally divine persons – the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He is the beginning and end of all things. He is the Creator of the universe and author of all life. All history moves toward Him and finds its culmination in His sovereign plan.
(Genesis 1; John 1:1; Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 19:6)
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Jesus, the Son, was born of a virgin and came to earth because of God’s love for humanity. In living a fully human/fully divine life He is both our example and victorious King. He inaugurated God’s kingdom on earth and died for the sins of His people. He conquered death and rose from the grave before ascending to the Father where He reigns with Him. He will return one day in power and glory. He is our Savior and Lord. He is the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Life.
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The Holy Spirit is the fully active power of God at work in the world today. He was sent to comfort and to reveal Truth. He equips, enables, and empowers believers to live out the ordained purposes for their lives.
(John 14:15-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-16)
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Salvation is God’s gift of redemption for His Church. It is the free gift of grace received by faith alone in Jesus Christ to all who would repent of their sins and believe in his finished work on the cross. Salvation cannot be found outside of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
(John 1:12; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8-9)
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Humanity is God’s crowning work in creation and has the primary purpose of glorifying God by representing him on earth and living in relationship with him and others. All persons are fearfully and wonderfully made in God’s image and possess equal value and dignity regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender. In the beginning God made humans uniquely male and female, and continues to determine and distinguish gender at the moment of conception. God has given the covenant of marriage to humanity and has ordained it as a spiritual and physical union between one man and one woman, with sex beautifully and exclusively occurring within that union. All human beings are sinful at birth, but hope and restoration for humanity is found in the finished work of Jesus.
(Genesis 1:27; Psalm 8:3-6; Psalm 51:5; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:3)
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The gospel is the good news that God, our righteous King, because of his great love for us, sent Jesus, the Son, to live, die, and be raised in our place for the punishment of our sins, so that, through faith, we are reconciled to God in order that, by the Spirit, we might live as kingdom citizens in relationship with and in representation of Him.
(Luke 2:10-11; Luke 4:14-21; John 3:16-17; Romans 1:16-17)
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The Bible is wholly authentic, inspired, fully trustworthy, and without error in the original writings. There is nothing that can be added to it or taken from it. The Bible is the revealed word of God and is useful for teaching, encouraging, and correcting.
(Psalm 19:7-14; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)
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The Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring His Gospel to every man, woman and child. There is one Church of which Jesus Christ is the head. The Church is made up of every person who places their trust in the finished work of Jesus.
(Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:41-47; Ephesians 3; Ephesians 4:1-13)
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Only by trusting in the person and work of Jesus Christ alone can we be reconciled to God, receive forgiveness for our sins, and experience true life and joy.
John 3:16-21; 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:21-26; Galatians 2:15-21; Ephesians 1:3-14; 1 Timothy 2:5-6