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A North Carolina man's act of generosity may have ended up saving his own life. Pastor Tim Jones decided to donate his kidney to help a man named Herbert he met at a church last fall who needed a transplant. 

"I wanted to give him a chance at life, I wanted to give him hope," Jones said. He got tested and turned out to be a match for Herbert. After a series of tests, the transplant was finally arranged for Monday at Duke University Medical Center.

Herbert got his new kidney. But the operation did more than save Herbert's life -- it may have saved Jones' as well. When doctors opened him up, they made a surprising discovery. Jones said that his operation took six hours -- twice as long as expected -- because "they found an aneurysm in my body." It hadn't shown up in any of the tests.

"God used the story to save both our lives," Jones said. "If I hadn't listened to God's voice to give my kidney, I might not have been here much longer if the aneurysm broke."

More than 101,000 Americans are waiting for kidney transplants, the National Kidney Foundation reports, and fewer than 17,000 actually get a donor each year.

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