With blood gushing from his chest amid the frantic screams of congregants at the Eagles Christian Centre, Sebastiaan Mosale pleaded with his wife to pray to God to save his life.
When gunmen stormed the Newlands church in Johannesburg last Friday night, Mosale heroically jumped in front of the gun and saved a woman from being shot.
Seated on the church's floor with his wife, Faranaaz, he clutched the bullet wound in his chest and told his wife: "I am not ready to die. Please pray for me."