[2] In the early 1900s she was secretary of the Women's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church.
[2] Lysnar was in London early in the year and was admitted in April 1913 becoming the first woman in New Zealand to be made a Fellow on the grounds of her extensive travel although she had not published anything at that time.
[5][6][7] In 1915 Lysnar travelled to India to the Mukti Mission for child widows and other outcast women and children set up by social reformer Pandita Ramabai.
[2][9] During the war she travelled to France and to the United Kingdom where she assisted the war effort by working in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force convalescent camp at Hornchurch.
[2] After her time in India she continued to support the Mukti Mission by giving lectures in many places including California, Agra, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.