(1) You have the opportunity to help meet the felt needs of a child whose living circumstances would be less than ideal. Your investment goes toward helping a child who can use help right now with physical and emotional needs. James 1:27 is very clear that helping widows and orphans in their affliction is a mark of true Christianity. It is not a vague, impersonal well-wishing from afar. Helping the fatherless in their affliction is a tangible responsibility that brings immediate benefits to a child.

(2) You have the opportunity to help bring a child into a loving, Christian home. We do not typically think of adoption as a rescue effort on an eternal scale, but in many cases, that is true. There are many children whose lives would never intersect with a Gospel influence of the magnitude they would find in a Christian family. To help a Christian family adopt a child is to help bring that child into an environment that exposes him or her to the life-changing power of God's Word. It is not necessarily a guarantee that the child will trust Christ as Savior, but it increases the likelihood exponentially. We cannot buy and take things with us into eternity. But giving financially toward a Christian adoption is one way to use money as a tool toward investing in souls.