BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - There will be just one overnight warming center open in Bangor this winter. This comes as an application error left the city’s most well-attended location frozen out of state funding.

“It was devastating,” said Pastor Leon Licata of The Brick Church. “Not only for me, but my whole staff. Because this is what we do, and this is the community that we love working with. And it’s so needed.”

Licata says The Brick Church served between 60 and 70 people nightly at its Union Street shelter last winter.

This week, he announced the overnight warming center would not open this year. The decision came after MaineHousing announced $2.3 million in grants to warming centers across the state -- and The Brick Church wasn’t on the list.

After looking back at their records, the

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