By the late 1930’s, though the refreshing mineral spring and its sequestered beauty remained, the guests had moved on to resorts near the shore of New Jersey.

The “Ebenezer” building
and its surrounding land was for sale.Around that time, Henry and Anna Zimmerman, missionaries from the Liebenzell Mission located in Germany,
arrived in the US to raise support. Six weeks after their arrival, World War II
broke out in Europe, and the couple found themselves unable to return home.