CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) and several other Lutheran organizations have joined a coalition of almost 3,000 organizations to promote September as "National Preparedness Month." The coalition is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to increase public awareness about emergency preparedness through a variety of activities. "After a recent storm, I realized that despite my years of work in the area of disaster response and as a hospital ch... ...