About Daryl Jorden

New Nashville Christian Country artist, Daryl Jorden, and his wife Betty are quite the team.  Betty writes the songs, and Daryl sings them.   Betty writes from experiences she and Daryl have lived together.  Daryl sings with the emotion of an artist who knows what he is singing about, but it was not always so.  

A truck driver by trade, who now manages a trucking company, Daryl Jorden found himself in a desperate situation one night while driving his route.  Thinking about the mess he had made of his life and his marriage, a thought came to his mind.  He looked at the bridge in Paducah, Kentucky, and thought about how easy it would be to drive off it and end all his troubles. 

Daryl tells his story, “I was driving one night in a very dark time in our marriage.  I was angry with myself for the hurt I had caused.  There was no way to go back and fix it.  Betty had forgiven me, but I couldn’t forgive myself.  In a very dark moment, I decided to drive off the bridge, but a supernatural power, either God Himself or an angel, held the wheel.  I could not turn it at all to go off the bridge.  From that moment, it was a turning point for me!”

Betty continues, “When I let go of things and let God have control, I was able to forgive.  Learning to forgive is what both of us had to do.  That is when I wrote the song ‘Let Go of the Reins.’  

Daryl grew up in church all his life with his Pentecostal preaching father.  He shared that in 1990, his nineteen-year-old brother died in a car accident.  That is when he turned his life over to God.  

Betty, on the other hand, also grew up in church.  In fact, it was on her way to church one night when God got her attention.  Her family almost had a collision which would have taken both her and her brother’s life had God not intervened.  That is when Betty realized she was not saved and would not have gone to Heaven.  She got saved shortly after that on New Year’s Eve, because she says she “wanted to start the year out the right way.”  

After Daryl and Betty married, life was not always easy.  There have been a lot of struggles.  One weekend last year, they went away to relax and enjoy each other’s company, but that is not how it turned out.

“That weekend turned into an ordeal,” shares Betty.  “We were eating when I started having severe stomach pains.  They didn’t go away.  I went to the doctor on Monday when we got home for gallbladder or appendix.  I was sent straight to the emergency room for a CT scan. They found a mass on my ovary and six other places where I had spots.  I was in stage four cancer.  I had four rounds of chemo and then surgery in February of 2025.  I bled internally after the surgery.  I had more surgery, and they found sepsis and E.coli.  I was in the hospital for seven days with three more rounds of chemotherapy.  Then, I went back for a scan, and they found no signs of any cancer in my organs as before or in my bloodwork.  I never lost my faith and am claiming God’s healing!”

Daryl and Betty say before, they looked at singing and songwriting as just a hobby for the last twenty-five to thirty years.  However, a songwriting contest through Nashville Christian Country and a win started them on a brand-new journey of recording the songs Betty writes and Daryl sings.  They are both excited to see where God takes them and how He will use them to touch someone’s life.  

To reach Daryl and Betty Jorden for booking, contact them at 314-496-6459 or email at daryljorden@gmail.com.  Look for Daryl Jorden on all social media.  They are also available for interviews or station liners.