PA P UA N E W GU I N E A
Eric Boehm:
A Life of Service in Papua New Guinea
Now retired, Lester Devine served as director emeritus of the Ellen G. White/ Adventist Research Center in Avondale, Australia.
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Eric Alan Albert Boehm (1910–1984) was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, missionary, church administrator, and the first president of the Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission based in Rabaul, in what was then called the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. The following story is adapted from his biographical article in the online Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. We invite you to visit encyclopedia.adventist. org to enjoy more stories about Adventist missionaries.
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ric Alan Albert Boehm was born on July 3, 1910, in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He began school at the age of 6, traveling back and forth with his sister Leila in a horsedrawn cart driven by his mother. At 14, in 1924, Boehm began work as an apprentice press machinist for Signs Publishing Company in Warburton, Victoria. He finished his apprenticeship in 1930, the same year he met a young woman named Dorothy Isabel Shelton. He then served eight months as a fully qualified 1
