(CNN) — Before Endre Gunter was taken to emergency surgery to treat a gunshot wound to the stomach, the 13-year-old boy asked a surgeon to pause for a moment.

“Can you say a prayer with me?,” he said, according to his aunt, Natalie Davis, who wrote ab  out the exchange on a GoFundMe page to help with the boy’s medical bills.

“The surgeon later told us that not only did Endre survive the surgery, he fought through a terrifying event with courage that inspired the entire medical team,” she said. “That moment of prayer, and Endre’s resilience, will stay with our family forever.”

The young teen is one of 18 people, most of them children, who were wounded Wednesday after a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Minneapolis church , where students like Endre and faculty from

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