He was associated with the Carver Street chapel, and became a departmental superintendent of the Red Hill school, one of the largest in the city, and famous as a source of ministers and mission workers.
[2] In 1908 Wheen was transferred from Victoria to New South Wales for service in the foreign mission office, and after serving in conjunction with the late Rev.
[2] Wheen was elected and installed for three years as President-General at the general conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia at Brisbane in May 1926.
[2][5] Wheen died on the morning of Wednesday 13 November 1929 in Sydney, after a short illness, at the age of 71 years.
[2] His funeral service was held on Thursday 14 November 1929 at the Ashfield Methodist Church, after which he was cremated at Rookwood Cemetery.
[6] A stained glass memorial window depicting "Morning at Gethsemane" in the Ashfield Methodist Church was dedicated to Wheen on Sunday 16 August 1936.