The Camp Crowder Gymnasium is a historic school building at 205 Shiloh Drive in Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Arkansas.

[2] However, the academy was not performing well financially and in 1951 Brown closed it and sold the campus for a small amount of money to William Cameron Townsend.

[6] The summer camp trained people in linguistics and Biblical translation, and to prepare them to become missionaries in other countries―from phonetics and philology, to religious prayer, to making furniture and taking ten-mile hikes around the area.

Brown sold them his entire Sulphur Springs campus to them and his personal off-campus home in the town (Shiloh House), and they used the gymnasium as a recreation hall for the students and faculty there.

[2] In 1964, SIL International prepared to move their headquarters to Huntington Beach, California[8] and sold the property to Copeland Development, which went bankrupt.

Under the nonprofit name Hendren-Hutchinson Christian Ministries, Inc., they announced plans to restore the buildings and convert the church to an event conference center.

At the time of that announcement, it was suggested that the planned Bella Vista Bypass would revitalize the town and bring people to Hendren's event center as well.