Gerardus Beekman is the Rector today . Holy Name of Mary Church The first Croton parish of the Holy Name of Mary was establish- ed in 1874 with Ossining Clergy in attendance . Mass was celebrated once a month in the White resi- dence on Mt. Airy Road and later in the Trainor building on Riverside Avenue . on Finally a church was built Church Street with the Rev. Patrick McGovern the first resident Pastor . Father McGovern was Pastor from 1877 to 1892 . In 1894 a parish was established at Croton Dam , and in 1898 a new church ( now the Parochial School ) was erected on Grand Street . This church was in use until the present- day church and rectory were built and dedicated in 1929. In this same year a mission church , the Good Shepherd , was erected in the Har- mon section . The two churches have a total of 1200 parishioners with the Rev. Ed- ward A. McGrath as their Pastor . Asbury Methodist Church The Asbury Methodist Church , organized in 1881 as the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church , had the Rev. D. W. C. Van Gaasback as its first minister and William Emery , Augustus Dyckman , Gilbert Holmes , John Morton and Nathaniel Tuttle its first Trustees . Today its minister is Rev. Char- les J. F. Keil ; Trustees are Eugene Barton , Edward Briggs , Victor Grant , Lester Maylath , Alva New- comer , Charles Tubbs , F. William Schnell , Sarkiss Sarkissian and Al- bert Swanson . Its membership at the present time is 300 . First Church of Christ Scientist First Church of Christ , Scientist , Harmon , was organized and a church building erected on Young Avenue , Harmon , in 1926 , at which time the community cooperated in the building of the edifice .