Staff
Ruth Sze
Drew Bryson
Sean Lawrence
Sean is Giving Children Hope’s Non-Profit Partner Manager. He develops and cultivates the relationships between GCH’s non-profit partners and field partners.
He grew up a missionary kid in SE Asia and would later work with his church in Southern California to develop a missions program that extended to Japan and Rwanda. In addition, Sean spent several years reporting on missions work and humanitarian crises events around the world for a mission’s magazine. He looks forward to using his experience in relief and missions work to the benefit of our partners.
Sean arrives at GCH from a most recent background in marketing writing for both non-profits and the private sector. Sean joined Giving Children Hope in June 2010 and rather enjoys his grueling 5 minute commute from his home Fullerton which he shares with his wife Crystal and their three young sons.
Mike Moulard
Rita Presley
Rosa Rueda
Harmony Trevino
Harmony is Giving Children Hope’s Director of Communications. She oversees the web site, public relations, and all inbound marketing and social media integration. She is also the Grants Manager and oversees all grant writing and research.
Harmony is a native of Orange County, CA. She graduated with a B.A. in Communications with a concentration in Print Journalism and minor in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton, CA. Her previous experience includes being a contributor and editorial assistant for several magazines.
She joined Giving Children Hope in October 2007 after a summer internship with the organization.
Elizabeth Saldaña
Elizabeth is Giving Children Hope’s Director of Community Programs. She joined the Giving Children Hope family in August of 2007.
She oversees all of our local programs including We’ve Got Your Back, Giving for Living and our Mission Store.
She was born in Quito, Ecuador and migrated here with her parents at the age of one. She was raised in Cypress, California and graduated from Cypress College with her A.A. in Human Services. She is working on her B.A. in Social Work at California State University, Fullerton.
She is happily married with three beautiful children and is blessed to have found friends here at Giving Children Hope.
Jessica Rickerts
Jessica is the assistant to the president & CEO, John Ditty. She joined Giving Children Hope in May of 2008.
Born and raised in Orange County, Ca, Jessica graduated summa cum laude from California State University, Fullerton, with a B.A. in Communications, emphasizing Public Relations, and a minor in English. Her previous experience includes six years working in the auto appraisal industry and a position at a public relations/event planning firm.
Ken Hicks
After working for 12 years as a Field Service Engineer for Beckman Instruments, Ken joined Mercy Ships, taking his wife and 3 children with him. For Mercy Ships he worked as a procurement officer and electronic tech, serving in Texas, England, Central America and West Africa. He currently teaches CPR/First Aid, swimming, and is a disaster response member of CERT and a reservist for Hope Force International.
Ken joined Giving Children Hope in October 2007 working in procurement and biomedical technology.
Randy Bradley
Randy Bradley is the bookkeeper and staff accountant and has been with Giving Children Hope since 2006. Prior to coming to Giving Children Hope he served as Associate Pastor and Chief Financial Officer for Pressing On Christian Fellowship in Fullerton, CA from 1995 to 2005.
Randy was born in Los Angeles, CA, but was raised in Orange County, CA. He is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside campus, having earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics.
Randy worked as a computer operator and system programmer for World Vision International in Monrovia, CA in the early 1980’s. He also worked in a similar capacity for other companies before he moved to working with developmentally disabled adults as an activity coach. Randy served in this capacity for ten years before going full-time into the ministry of Pressing On Christian Fellowship.
In 2001, Randy’s fellowship made contact with John Ditty, President of Giving Children Hope to conduct a local weekly food distribution ministry in partnership with GCH. This ministry thrived for three years before GCH moved to Buena Park in 2004.
Randy lives in Placentia, CA with his wife and stepson.
Joe Bergfalk
Joe is Giving Children Hope’s Director of Budgets and Finance.
He is recently retired after a 32-year career with the YMCA. He held positions that include CEO of the San Gabriel Valley YMCA and the YMCA of Riverside City and County, Senior Vice President of the YMCA of Greater Long Beach as well as numerous Executive Director assignments in that association.
Mr. Bergfalk has a Bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach and a national status as a YMCA Senior Director and master trainer.
Joe lives in Buena Park with his wife, Nancy.
Bill Barta
Bill is a one day per week consultant to the CEO in the areas of operations, container shipping, partner relations, and the capital campaign initiative. He worked two years at Giving Children Hope from 2000-2002 before going to the Union Rescue Mission as its COO.
Bill is from Ohio originally and went on to the US Military Academy at West Point where he was elected Class Treasurer and MVP of the Army football team. He retired as an Army Lt. Col with combat experience in Vietnam, and duty in Korea, France, and Germany. He ended his career in the Pentagon as a Plans Director in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army where he received the Legion of Merit award. He obtained his Master’s in Systems Management at USC and after retirement worked in the President’s Office at World Vision Int’l as the Senior Executive Assistant before taking a job as VP Operations at International Aid Inc, a large relief ministry in Michigan.
Anatoliy Andreyev
Anatoliy is our Director of Operations and Biotechnology. He works diligently to refurbish and retrofit medical equipment for its worldwide relief and development projects. Every piece of equipment and machinery that is donated is thoroughly cleaned, and evaluated and if necessary, repaired and tuned so that all medical apparatus shipped oversees are in proper working condition.
He also oversees procurement of equipment ranging from hospital beds and wheelchairs to fetal monitors and ultra sound scanners. He has been at Giving Children Hope for more than a decade.
Anatoliy was previously a Hospital Administrator in St. Petersburg, Russia and Chief Engineer at the Institute of Toxicology in Russia.
John Ditty (CEO & President)
John Ditty is Co-founder, President and CEO of Giving Children Hope. He oversees all of Giving Children Hope’s operations, as well as its management and staff.
John was born and raised in California. He earned an Associate of Arts degree from Fullerton Junior College. He spent time in the U.S. Air Force as a precision measuring and equipment specialist before returning to school to earn a degree and a teaching credential in Industrial Arts from Humboldt State University. He also acquired an electrical contractor’s license and started his own business. John and his wife, Juliana, have four children, three of whom they adopted internationally.
As John and his wife underwent the process of adopting their children, they were deeply affected by the poor treatment of children in orphanages. After adopting their fourth child from Russia in 1992, they became active in the distribution of humanitarian aid and founded Global Operations and Development/Giving Children Hope. John and Juliana began the organization’s first projects with their own money, using their garage as a distribution center. It has grown to produce and distribute $30 million worth of aid out of a 43,000 square ft. facility.
“God birthed this place, and God has grown it,” says John of the organization’s success. “It has all been a miracle. It is exciting to see what He is going to do next.”
