Good Shepherd Olive Wood Statue Handcrafted in the Holy Land — 11 Inch

This statue st raphael is handcrafted by skilled Christian artisans in Bethlehem. Made from genuine olive wood, each piece is unique with natural grain patterns. Size: 11 inch. Ships worldwide with free US shipping on orders over $100.

Dimensions: H 11.0″ × W 7.3″ × D 6.8″  (28.0 × 18.5 × 17.2 cm)

About This Good Shepherd Figure

Pick this up and you feel the weight of it right away. Solid olive wood, both hands required. Jesus holds the lamb against His chest and the carving on the face is quiet, not dramatic, just present. That's harder to pull off than it sounds.

If you've been looking at wood carving sculptures for sale and most of what you find feels mass-produced, this is a different thing. It's 11.4 inches tall, hand-carved in Bethlehem, and the grain runs through it like the wood had something to say. Every piece comes out a little different because that's what real wood does.

This is one of those figures hand carved from genuine Holy Land olive wood by families who've been doing this work for generations. You can feel the care in it. Olive wood good shepherd for sale at this level of detail isn't something you find just anywhere.

Features & Details

• ✓ Genuine Holy Land olive wood, hand-carved in Bethlehem
• ✓ Dimensions: 11.4 x 7 x 7 inches
• ✓ Subject: Jesus the Good Shepherd holding a lamb to His chest
• ✓ Hand-polished to show the natural wood grain
• ✓ Each piece has its own grain pattern, no two are identical
• ✓ Carved by Christian artisan families in the long Bethlehem tradition
• ✓ Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity

Product Specifications

Perfect As a Gift

A pastor in Ohio ordered one of these for a family in his congregation who'd just lost their father. He told me they put it on the mantle and that's where it's stayed. Some gifts end up in a drawer. This one doesn't.

It works for a figures baptism gift, a figures confirmation gift, or honestly any moment that calls for something with real weight behind it. Free US shipping on orders over $100, and we ship worldwide direct from Bethlehem.

The Story Behind It

Most wood sculptures for sale online come out of a factory somewhere, packed in a warehouse, no story attached. These don't. The families who carve these pieces live in Bethlehem, a short walk from where this whole story started two thousand years ago. That proximity isn't decorative. It's part of what goes into the work.

The olive wood itself comes from annual pruning of living trees. Nobody cuts a tree down for this. The wood gets used, the tree keeps growing, and the carver shapes what's there into something like this figure. Three generations in, same families, same craft, same city. Your order keeps that going directly, no middlemen between you and them.

Unlike large wood sculptures for sale through import retailers, these come factory-direct. What you pay goes to the artisan family, not a distributor chain. That matters to me, and I'd guess it matters to you too or you wouldn't be reading this far.

Care Instructions

Olive wood is low maintenance. If it starts looking a little dry after years of display, rub a small drop of olive oil into it with a soft cloth and it'll come right back. Don't soak it in water. That's genuinely all there's to it.