The Western Highlands Mission (WHM) is the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) administrative entity for the Western Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. Its headquarters are in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands province, Papua New Guinea.
The territory of the Western Highlands Mission is “Enga, Hela, Jiwaka, Southern Highlands, and Western Highlands provinces, Telefomin district of Sandaun province, and Kiunga district of Fly River province of Papua New Guinea.”
It is a part of, and responsible to, the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM), Lae, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea Union Mission comprises the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church entities in the country of Papua New Guinea.
The mission operates under General Conference and South Pacific Division (SPD) operating policies.
Those policies state that the officers of the Western Highlands Mission are elected by the PNGUM.
“The mission president elected by the union is a member of the union committee and is the union representative in the conduct of the work in the mission. The president shall, with the local mission committee, supervise and carry forward the work in the local mission.” Mission associate officers and departmental personnel are elected at a duly called session of the mission where representatives from all churches in the mission are present.
- Excerpt from the SDA Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists - WHM.