The renovated Grace Lutheran Church sits nestled in a wooded environment at the corner of Curry and Gomer streets, nearby Route 6 in Yorktown Heights. Its founding Pastor and mission developer, Albert Haversat,began his mission work for the Yorktown Lutheran Church in February of 1964. The first worship service was held onSeptember 13, 1964, in a Jefferson Valley store next to what is now the post office. Over the past forty years the congregation has expanded and seen its church and sanctuary rebuilt. The Reverend Dr. Timothy J. Kennedy has been church pastor since 1978, and in 1988 Grace Lutheran became a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.