[2] Sorensen spent his career as a business owner, operating a healthcare services company while living in California..

Sorensen was called as a general authority and member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in June 1992.

Sorensen's assignments as a general authority included service as Executive Director of the church's Temple Department.

[6][7] After being designated as an emeritus general authority in 2005, Sorensen served as president of the church's San Diego California Temple from 2005 to 2008.

[8] Sorensen died at his home in San Juan Capistrano, California.