Make new friends, but keep the old

Being in the military, we move around enough and also find our friends constantly coming and new ones coming in. At our last base I made some friends early, but never “replaced” them after they left and found myself a little lonely. On top of this, I have been terrible about keeping in touch with friends who have moved on (despite Facebook, MySpace, email, etc. etc.!!) We are relatively new to this base and have made a few good friends fairly easily through our church, but they will all be leaving within the next 6 months. I definitely want to put in the effort to keep in touch well with them as well as reach out and make new friendships.