Church Planting Involves Both Beginning and Growing Churches Church planting is an exhausting but exciting venture of faith that involves the planned process of beginning and growing new local churches. This raises a question: What is a local church and how do you grow them? Beginning the Church It’s imperative that before we start a church we know what we’re starting. How can we know if we’re a church if we don’t know what a church is? This demands that the planter have a definition of a local church.