What is Altered Church?

Altered Church is a faith community at 1289 Mentor Avenue in Painesville, Ohio, serving Painesville and Lake County since 2016. Through its outreach ministry, Altered Cares, the church has walked alongside thousands of individuals and families with food, basic necessities, shoes, Christmas gifts, and winter coats, welcoming everyone regardless of background or circumstance.

Adventure Subaru, a family-owned Subaru retailer in Painesville, Ohio, first worked with Altered Church in 2025, providing coats for the church's fall coat distribution. In 2026, Adventure Subaru is the sponsor of Coats for Our Neighbors, a Subaru Love Promise event that puts 300 brand-new winter coats into the hands of children and families in need.

Practical care for our neighbors

Altered Church's outreach is simple and practical: a warm meal, a coat, a kind word. Here's what that looks like, and why a new winter coat matters so much in Lake County.

Altered Cares

Altered Cares is the church's community outreach ministry. It has provided food, basic necessities, shoes, Christmas gifts, and care and compassion to thousands of individuals and families since the church began. Anyone who needs help can reach the care team through a help request form on the Altered Church website, and a member of the team follows up.

The need in Lake County

Many of the families Altered Church serves are working multiple jobs to keep up with housing and food costs, which leaves little for seasonal clothing. For their children, a winter coat or good footwear often isn't in the budget. Northeast Ohio winters are hard, and going without proper outerwear affects school attendance, health, and a child's ability to focus and feel confident among their peers.

Why a new coat matters

Many of the children Altered Church works with have never received a brand-new piece of clothing. A coat of their own, new and in their size, tells a child that someone outside their home sees them and cares about them. It means walking into school on a cold January morning looking and feeling like every other kid in class. For parents, it's one less burden to carry.

How to support Altered Church

If Altered Church's work resonates with you, there are two ways to help - one that goes directly to Altered Church, and one that goes through the partnership we've built together.

Get help or support Altered Church directly

If your family needs help, Altered Church's care team takes requests through an online form and follows up personally. To give or learn more about the church's outreach, start at the Altered Cares page. They run the outreach, they know the families, and they're the right first stop.

Altered Cares help request form

altered.church/altered-cares

Support Altered Church through Adventure Subaru

Follow Adventure Subaru on social media for photos from Coats for Our Neighbors and our other community work throughout the year. Altered Church shares its outreach on Instagram and Facebook.

community@440asubaru.com for questions about our community work or how to get involved.