The Christmas Stick is unique in several ways. First of all, it is all in Spanish. Why Spanish? Back in 1990, I took my first mission trip to Mexico. We go every year. In 2001, we started a Latino Ministry with the Western Hills Church of Christ. We have about 25-30 Latinos come every Sunday.
The other thing that makes this stick unique is that each item is caved inside a cage. Most of my carvings would be considered relief carvings, just carved on the surface. But this stick shows each image in true form. Plus I stained this stick different colors to make it look like different kinds of woods glued together. But it is from one piece of wood. It starts out at the very top simply by saying, “Feliz Navidad.” That means “Merry Christmas”. Then I have everything you would see in a Christmas scene carved individually.
This stick took about one year and six months. I did most of the carvings in the year 2000.