We’re spending the next few weeks highlighting Team Expansion’s support staff, International Services (IS). You’ll learn who they are, what they do, and how many people it really takes behind the scenes to keep missionaries successful, healthy, and on the field!

Some of our workers need to remain anonymous due to security concerns in the closed countries they visit, but we still want to tell you about them, so we’ll use pseudonyms and won’t show their faces.

Al Gigliaro

Global Security Director & Child Protection Officer

Years at Team Expansion: 13

Number of Countries Visited: 52

Most Exotic Food You’ve Eaten: Five (5) meat pizza in Cambodia. The meats were pork, beef, chicken, dog & cat. Also Bosnian coffee. WOW!

Favorite Missions Experience: Spending time with my beloved family members (who work as missionaries on the field) and a camel ride in the Western Sahara.  Also spending time with workers around the world.