Karissa Corpeny

Team Coach

Karissa provides servant leadership to the Take the City staff, dedicated to seeing them grow as leaders and be effective in their respective roles. After spending 10 years at Ford Motor Co. as a mechanical engineer, 4 years in Jamaica as a missionary with Teen Challenge, 7 years in Columbus, GA helping to develop and facilitate the Emerging Leaders Program with Teen Challenge Southeast – she launched out in 2015 to start Redwoods Consulting. Karissa is a life-long learner and is passionate about seeing organizations create healthy cultures, effective servant leaders and empowered people resulting in the best possible service to the mission and those they serve. She now resides in the Kansas City area with her husband Pete, an engineering project manager at Herzog Corporation.

Brittany

I have been serving in some way with Take the city since October 2013. I spent a lot of time on the prayer team in the beginning and encountered God’s heart for the city in a life changing way. When the teams came back and shared testimonies, it was always fun to see that our prayers coincided with some of their testimonies in special ways. More recently I have had the privilege of leading a team to a nursing home where I used to be an employee. I used to pray over the facility every day, and it was such a miracle to see an old friend who lives there give his life to Jesus on one of our outreaches a year later. God sure has a way of answering prayers. And Take the City is an answer to so many prayers that have gone up here.