Intentional Family Ministries
Meet Darin &
Duana Sargent.
For over three decades, Darin and Duana have been building the marriage and family they now help others create — one intentional decision at a time.
Their Story
Two Different Worlds.
One Purpose.
Darin and Duana Sargent have been doing life together for over three decades — and they'll be the first to tell you it hasn't always been easy. That honesty is exactly what makes them worth listening to.
They came from completely different worlds. Darin grew up in a strong home where faith was lived out loud and marriage was modeled well. Duana grew up in dysfunction — a home marked by alcoholism, infidelity, and the kind of pain that leaves a mark on a child's understanding of what love is supposed to look like.
When they married, they didn't just bring two people together. They brought two entirely different sets of expectations, wounds, and hopes into the same house — and had to figure out what to build from there. What they built is the foundation of everything they now teach.
Together, Darin and Duana have spent years speaking to couples and families across the nation — in churches, conferences, marriage events, and ministry weekends — helping people name what they brought into their relationships and discover what God designed those relationships to become.
What We Help You Build
A Marriage Worth Modeling
A covenant-centered relationship that shows your children what faithful love actually looks like — not a perfect one, an intentional one.
A Home That Disciples
Daily actions and rhythms that shape faith, identity, and character — not just rules that manage behavior.
A Legacy Worth Inheriting
Your ceiling becomes your children's floor. We help families build with legacy in view — so what you build outlasts you.
They are the proud parents of Carson and his wife Emily, Ashton and her husband Hunter — who recently made Darin and Duana grandparents to Westley — and their youngest daughter Averie.
"We didn't show up to teach you something we figured out. We showed up to share what we're still living — and to believe with you that God is building something in your marriage worth protecting."— Darin & Duana Sargent
Darin Sargent
Individual Bio
Darin
Sargent
Darin Sargent has spent decades helping people discover that what they've been given is exactly enough to build something extraordinary.
Born with one hand, Darin knows firsthand what it means to live with limitation — and to refuse to let it write the final word. That refusal isn't just his personal story. It is the lens through which he sees every couple, every family, and every person who shows up to one of his events carrying something they've decided might disqualify them.
As an author, speaker, and ministry leader, Darin brings a rare combination of honesty, humor, and biblical depth to every room he enters. He has spent years speaking across the nation at churches, conferences, family events, and leadership gatherings — and his message has remained consistent: God builds legacies out of ordinary people who make intentional decisions.
Darin leads Ministry Central at the UPCI and co-leads Intentional Family Ministries alongside his wife Duana. He doesn't speak from a distance. He speaks from a life that has been tested, stretched, and — by the grace of God — held together.
Individual Bio
Duana
Sargent
Duana Sargent did not grow up with a picture of what a healthy marriage looked like. What she had instead was a front-row seat to what happens when a home is held together by obligation instead of love — and a quiet, determined belief that her story did not have to end where it began.
That belief has become her message.
For over three decades, Duana has built a marriage and a family that look nothing like what she inherited. She and her husband Darin have spent years speaking to couples and families across the nation — and Duana brings to that work something no curriculum can replicate: the authority of someone who has actually done the hard thing.
She has chosen covenant on days when it cost her something. She has led her home with intention when it would have been easier to drift. And she has watched that faithfulness compound into a family she is genuinely proud of.
Duana is a communicator who connects quickly and goes deep without warning. She is warm, disarmingly honest, and has a gift for saying the thing that women in the room have been thinking but didn't know how to put into words. Her message: no woman has to repeat the home she came from. And it is never too late to build something different.
Duana Sargent
For Pastors & Event Coordinators
Ready to Bring Darin & Duana
to Your Church?
Darin and Duana are available for marriage weekends, family conferences, leadership events, and church engagements. Tell us about your church and what you're envisioning — let's build something together.