The sculpture was created over three-and-a-half years, is 2.5m by 1.5m, weighs over 260kg but has been sitting in her garage for the last five years.
The piece also includes personal mementoes such as flowers she had been given and the tassels off her late father's dressing gown.
Mrs Mens said she had tried to get the larger than life piece into local and national galleries but has always been refused.
"I've had no support from people except from people who have seen it."
She said she had offered the work to a number of galleries as well as Te Papa but had been turned down.
"I want it out of Tauranga. I want it to be an icon for our city," she said.
Mrs Mens said it broke her heart the piece was still sitting in her garage when she knew the potential it had if the right person simply came and viewed the piece.
"Imagine it in the right room, with the proper lighting and seating, it's just mesmerising.
"When I say I have Jesus at home in the garage, people roll their eyes at me. I could write a book about my personal journey of this and I tell you that it would be a doozy of a book."
Mrs Mens said she knew she wouldn't get the asking price for her sculpture but needed to attract interest.
"It's never been about money for me. It was about what happiness and emotions it could [mean] to people."
She also wouldn't divulge how much personally she had spent on the project but said it was in fact "priceless".
To her it was worth far more than $10 million and price was small change to billionaires, she said.
Over the years the work has sat in her garage, over 4000 people have come to visit it, she said.
"I have had garden groups, ministers and church groups, and school groups. The ultimate compliment I had was when a 3-year-old girl said to her mother, 'Look Mummy, look at the puppets. They are real'.
"I've even had people cry in front of it because of the impact it has on you."
Mrs Mens said the current listing on Trade Me would go on until Tuesday.
If the piece didn't sell she would list it again.
She would give New Zealand the chance to purchase it for about a month before she listed the sculpture on eBay, she said.