“We give these to the girls,” she said. “We never charge for anything, ever.”

Landwehr said the message tells each woman “how much Jesus loves her.”

“She doesn’t know that,” Landwehr said. “What she knows is that church people don’t like her. I’m here to tell you we do. We love her, and we tell her that. We don’t care how she’s dressed. We don’t care how little she has on. I don’t even see that anymore. We don’t care what color she is; we don’t care what language she speaks or doesn’t speak. She’s just one of my girls.”

Landwehr said her goal isn’t to take the women out of the brothels, because that is “something between them and God.” She said her purpose is to help the prostitutes understand that there are Christians who love them and “more importantly He loves them.”

“She doesn’t know that,” Landwehr said about the prostitutes in brothels. “When she gets a hold of that, then she’s going to come out, but even then it’s going to be a process for her to come out.”

Landwehr said many of the women are single moms and have to find a way to pay the bills without staying in the brothel. She also said many of the women have to get away from their pimps.