Apostle Alex Mitala is a family man, church planter, bible teacher, educationalist, and community transformer based in Kampala, Uganda. He is married to Catherine Mitala and together, they have six children. Mitala is the founder of Back to the Bible Truth Evangelistic Mission (BBT) organization.

At the time of Mitala's conversion to Christianity, Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin was persecuting Christians, and trying to force them to convert to Islam. When Mitala and other believers in the country refused to renounce Christianity, Amin closed churches and dispersed missionaries across the country.

During the period, many people that Mitala worked with were either killed or imprisoned as a result of the persecution and the church was forced to go underground, conducting its meetings and activities in secret.

In 1974, the young Mitala joined the underground preaching movement in an effort to encourage the underground churches to persevere and in 1978, he began smuggling Christian literature from Kenya into Uganda which later led to his arrest. Miraculously, Mitala’s life was spared and he was released shortly thereafter without charge.

Mitala then stayed in Kenya until 1979 until after Idi Amin was overthrown and he returned to Uganda to start a ministry of evangelizing and planting churches while at the same time attending Bible school in Nairobi, Kenya through correspondence. In the same year, Mitala founded Back to the Bible Truth Evangelistic Mission organization.