He was also a member of the provincial church government, president of the classical association of Groningen and member of the college of supervision of the ecclesiastical administration of Reformed Church in the Groningen Province.

[2] Boeles published ten articles for his pastorate about various affairs, including the fields of religion, religious education, church polity and history.

He then wrote the first dictionary of the Gronings dialect, the Idioticon Groninganum: vergelijkend woordenboek van den Groningschen tongval (Idioticon Groninganum: comparative dictionary of the Gronings dialect).

This unpublished manuscript was recovered by the professor of Groninger language and culture Siemon Reker in the 1990s and appeared in print in 1997.

[3][4] In 1850 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen[5][6] and during his fiftieth year of his pastorate on November 24, 1867, he became a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.