A panel explored the biblical basis for mission, from left, Dorothy Jean Weaver, Gene Roop, and Stephen Reid. Reid, academic dean at Bethany Theological Seminary, served as moderator. Roop, former Bethany president and Old Testament professor, highlighted the Psalms as prayers that address the full range of human experience, emphasizing that people in mission are a people in prayer. Weaver, a Mennonite New Testament scholar from Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va, named sharing the Good News and making disciples of all nations as the dominant New Testament call.