If all goes according to plan, the town of Roper will have a brand new playground for kids, courtesy of the Sowing Into My Purpose (S.I.M.P.) nonprofit.

The potential playground is slated to be installed in the field next to be Beaufort County Community College annex building and would include all of the typical slides, swings, monkey bars and that one would associate with a playground.

According to S.I.M.P’s Shemica Sanders, establishing a community playground for local kids in Roper has been a S.I.M.P. priority since its inception.

“We’ve always wanted to build a community playground. It was one of the dreams that the late Selander Simpson had since we started our youth center,” Sanders said. “When we stood on this land back in 2017, not knowing who owned it, how to get it or what to do, we prayed and visualized a S.I.M.P. playground with swing sets, slides, ladders, climbers…we went back to that land in 2023 and God had worked it all out. All we had to do was be in position...”