Scott Wagoner: Exploring the Meaning and Purpose of Quaker Structure. I recognize that at some point early Friends established structure and organization. My sense, though, is that their vision was that the structure would serve the vision and mission and not that the mission was to serve the structure. Quakers often seem in survival mode these days and in that mode there is a scrambling for resources and a piece of the pie. What if the structure of Yearly Meetings in their present form are not meant to stay that way?