She Saw a Facebook Post About a Dying Stranger—So She Gave Her a Kidney

It started, as so many things do now, with a Facebook post. Jenny Joyner of Memphis, Tennessee, was scrolling one day when she came across a message about living kidney donation. Something about it would not let her go. "Facebook and God, to be honest," she later said, trying to explain the decision. "For whatever reason that day I was like, ‘Huh! I could do that.’"

On the other side of that post was Stacy Hobson, also of Memphis, who was waiting for a kidney as her health declined. Across the United States, more than 100,000 people are on the transplant waiting list, and roughly 85% of them need a kidney—a wait that can stretch for years on a deceased-donor list. A living donor can change everything, and Joyner decided to become one for a woman she had never met.

“Jenny Joyner of Memphis, Tennessee, was scrolling one day when she came across a message about living kidney donation.”

After compatibility testing at the Methodist Transplant Institute, the match was confirmed. Hobson remembered the moment she got the news: "You have a match. And I was like… I literally screamed." In August 2025, Joyner gave one of her kidneys to Hobson. The surgery was a success—and remarkably, the two women still had not met in person. Their first face-to-face meeting came months later, in early November 2025.

Hobson now hopes her story will move others to consider doing what Joyner did. "If God has placed it on your heart," she said, "do it because you just don’t know the difference that you would make." It is a quietly radical kind of generosity: not money, not time, but a piece of one’s own body given to a stranger. Because a woman in Memphis paused over a Facebook post and thought "I could do that," another woman in the same city is living a fuller life today.