Today we’d like to introduce you to Aspen Sorensen.
Hi Aspen, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, but I grew up far from the water in landlocked Denver, Colorado. I was raised by parents who were self-employed and made their living repairing band instruments, so from an early age I learned the rhythms of small business, craftsmanship, and what it meant to build something with your hands. In my twenties, I married my high school sweetheart and went on to attend the University of Colorado at Denver. We settled into life together, built a home, and began raising children, a beautiful and demanding season that, like all family life, came with its own unique challenges. For most of my early life, the ocean remained something distant and unfamiliar. Aside from a single youth group outing where I tried waterskiing, I had never really been on a boat at all. That changed in 2012, when a trip to the Bahamas awakened a love for sailing that would quietly reshape the direction of our lives. In 2017, after searching the country for the right place to start our next chapter, we moved to Brunswick, Georgia, and quickly fell in love with the Golden Isles and their quiet, coastal beauty.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Along the way, the journey has not been without its challenges. Working closely with the church and with people who are often less fortunate than I am has been a profound and humbling learning experience that has stretched me far beyond my comfort zone. Learning to genuinely love people who see the world very differently from me has been both painful and deeply rewarding, a kind of painful pleasure that refines the heart even as it costs something to give. At the same time, moving to the South after spending so many years in the Midwest brought its own form of cultural reorientation. The slower pace, the deep emphasis on hospitality, and the unspoken social rhythms required me to listen more carefully and learn how to belong in a place that initially felt foreign. Through all of this, my faith has been sharpened, my compassion broadened, and my understanding of grace made far deeper than it ever could have been in comfort alone.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I’ve always been somewhat eclectic professionally, moving between worlds that don’t usually overlap. For many years, my work has been rooted in the church, serving in professional ministry through curriculum writing, teaching both children and adults, planning and executing ministry events, and now leading Women’s Ministry. Alongside that, I spent thirteen years as an orchestral string technician with Meis Musical Instrument Repair, first in Denver and now in Brunswick, repairing and restoring stringed instruments alongside my mother, Tessa, who taught me everything I know about the craft. Those years trained my hands, my patience, and my eye for detail in ways I still carry with me. In more recent years, I also began dabbling in tattooing, which has become a meaningful way to offer people permanent body art while opening the door to conversations about faith and the gospel of Christ. All of these experiences have shaped the way I approach my other profession as well: managing a small multi-family rental property in Brunswick, where pastoral care, craftsmanship, and practical problem-solving come together in unexpected ways.
Are there any apps, books, podcasts, blogs or other resources you think our readers should check out?
Much like so many people today, I have a deep love for true crime, especially stories about missing persons and unsolved mysteries, and I’m an avid listener of podcasts like Radio Rental and The Vanished. That curiosity is matched only by my love of books. Over the past twenty-five years, I’ve built a personal library of more than two thousand volumes, a collection so large that just this past summer my husband built custom eight-foot-tall bookshelves to house them all. I also have a deep love for theology and the study of Christ, and I spend much of my reading life immersed in Scripture and Christian thought. My favorite pastor of all time, Dr. John MacArthur of Grace to You, recently passed away, and his faithful teaching left a lasting mark on both my faith and my understanding of God’s Word. My favorite author of all time, and the focus of my minor in college, is Flannery O’Connor. While we were still living in Denver, we even made a special trip in 2015 to Savannah and Milledgeville, Georgia, just to visit both O’Connor’s childhood home and her later home, a pilgrimage of sorts for someone who has been shaped so deeply by her writing.
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