The owners of Called2Serve.com—a Web-based service for missionaries, friends and family—recently announced its re-launch for care package and free e-mail services.

Jorden Redford and Jason Read, former roommates at BYU, are running the site.

“We wanted to start a business to use our skills,” Redford said. “I had experience in accounting and finance and Jason had experience in computer programming.”

The two began Custom Care Package LLC, an online company, with aspirations of eventually expanding to other care package markets including the romance market, providing an alternative to ‘a dozen roses.’ Called2Serve.com, a company Redford and Read purchased, is the first branch of services the company offers.

“What’s nice about being an online company is that you can cater to all of America,” Redford said. “Because Called2Serve.com is an Internet business, we receive orders from customers throughout the world.”

The company chose to start with Called2Serve.com because of the large market it reaches as well as the variety of services it could offer compared to the competition.

“We noticed that a lot of the other missionary care sites don’t let you choose what you get to put in the packages,” Redford said. “With us you can choose from a variety of options like cookies, sweet rolls, doughnuts, chips and salsa, candy bars, General Conference CDs and many other missionary favorite items.”

One of the most popular packages offered is the Missionary Favorites Package: homemade chocolate chip cookies, buffalo jerky and salsa and chips.

Doughnuts for the District, consisting of two dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts, is also a very popular package and is the current special on www.called2serve.com.

“All of our baked goods are shipped the same day they are prepared,” said Read, co-owner of Called2Serve.com. “FedEx delivery never takes more than a few days, even to international missions, so our packages are always fresh when they arrive.”

Other packages include the Greenie Package, the Trunky Monkey Package and the latest edition of the Dear John Package, consisting of sparkling cider, a hanging monkey, candy and, of course, a package of Kleenex.

Called2Serve.com also offers an e-mail service for missionaries, with up to one gigabyte of storage, advanced spam prevention and an option to forward printed e-mails to missionaries who do not have access to the Internet, according to the company’s February press release.

One of the most unique products available through Called2Serve.com is a missionary scrapbook, consisting of dialogue and pictures sent and received through the e-mail service, and which comes professionally bound.

“Called2Serve.com has provided a great means of establishing our company, our technology and our business processes for future growth and expansion,” Read said.