2. It was a rainy, stormy day on March 23, 1869, when “a handful of women” came together at the Tremont Street Church in Boston to form the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

3. A skit about the beginnings of UMW
That Handful of Women
A skit about the beginnings of UMW

4. RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER
Left Side
RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER
Right Side
SIT QUIETLY

5. RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER
Left Side
SNAP YOUR FINGERS
Right Side
RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER

6. PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS
Left Side
PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS
Right Side
SNAP YOUR FINGERS

7. PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS
Left Side
CLAP YOUR HANDS
Right Side
PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS

8. STOMP YOUR FEET CLAP YOUR HANDS
Left Side
STOMP YOUR FEET
Right Side
CLAP YOUR HANDS

9. STOMP YOUR FEET SIT QUIETLY
Right Side
STOMP YOUR FEET
Left Side
SIT QUIETLY

10. All:
STOP

12. CLAP YOUR HANDS STOMP YOUR FEET
Left Side
CLAP YOUR HANDS
Right Side
STOMP YOUR FEET

14. SNAP YOUR FINGERS MAKE THE SOUND OF WIND
Left Side
SNAP YOUR FINGERS
Right Side
MAKE THE SOUND OF WIND

18. Left Side
APPLAUSE
Right Side
CHEER

21. CLAP YOUR HANDS STOMP YOUR FEET
Left Side
CLAP YOUR HANDS
Right Side
STOMP YOUR FEET

23. COUGH GENTLY, COVERING MOUTH WITH HAND
Left Side
COUGH GENTLY, COVERING MOUTH WITH HAND
Right Side
MAKE SNEEZING SOUNDS

24. All:
“God bless you.”

27. Left Side
Cover mouth in horror
Right Side
Say
“Oh my.”

28. Left Side
GASP

30. Right Side
SHHH

32. All:
“Oh, no!”

34. All:
“This can’t be!”

36. All:
“What can we do?”

38. All:
“You’re welcome.”

40. All:
HISS

42. All:
“Amen.”

44. All:
“Why not?”

47. All:
LAUGH

49. All:
SNIFFLE

52. All:
“But how can
we help?”

54. All:
“You’re welcome.”

57. All:
SCREAM

59. All:
CLEAR YOUR THROAT

62. All:
“Absolutely.”

64. All:
“But calico?”

67. All:
“Calico! Calico!”

69. All:
“Hallelujah!”

70. Isabella Thoburn
Dr. Clara Swain

71. All:
APPLAUSE

73. All:
“Justice! Justice!”

74. Clara Swain Hospital today
Isabella Thoburn College today

75. All:
CHEERS

77. All:
“Let us pray.”

80. RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER
Left Side
RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER
Right Side
SIT QUIETLY

81. RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER
Left Side
SNAP YOUR FINGERS
Right Side
RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER

82. PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS
Left Side
PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS
Right Side
SNAP YOUR FINGERS

83. PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS
Left Side
CLAP YOUR HANDS
Right Side
PAT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR THIGHS

84. STOMP YOUR FEET CLAP YOUR HANDS
Left Side
STOMP YOUR FEET
Right Side
CLAP YOUR HANDS

85. STOMP YOUR FEET SIT QUIETLY
Right Side
STOMP YOUR FEET
Left Side
SIT QUIETLY

86. All:
STOP

87. The End

88. Credits One PowerPoint produced by Evie Doyon Edited by Leeda Marsh
for
150th Birthday Celebration
March 23, 2019
Boston, Massachusetts

89. Credits Two
Images are taken from the UMW Video, The League of Extraordinary Methodist Women; and public domain stock images.
Sound effects: License: Attribution 3.0; Recorded by Mike Koenig; Downloaded from